Romanticism And Postmodernism

Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521642728

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Romanticism and Postmodernism by Edward Larrissy Pdf

The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and ideological abstractions of literary theory to the thematic and formal preoccupations of contemporary fiction and poetry. Though the precise meaning of the Romantic legacy is contested, it remains stubbornly difficult to move beyond. This collection of essays by prominent critics and literary theorists was first published in 1999, and explores the continuing impact of Romanticism on a variety of authors and genres, including John Barth, William Gibson, and John Ashbery, while writers from the Romantic and Victorian period include Wordsworth, Byron and Emily Brontë. Many critics have assumed that the forms and modes of feeling associated with the Romantic period continued to influence the cultural history of the the first half of the twentieth century. This was the first book to consider the mutual impact of postmodernism and Romanticism.

Author : Harry Raphael Garvin
Publisher : Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005468983

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Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism by Harry Raphael Garvin Pdf

Author : Alsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004658981

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Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction by Alsen Pdf

Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.

Author : Deborah Cogan Thacker,Jean Webb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children
ISBN : 0415204100

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Introducing Children's Literature by Deborah Cogan Thacker,Jean Webb Pdf

Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by children's literature.

Author : Martin Travers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826439604

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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism by Martin Travers Pdf

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism is an anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of recent European literature. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school of movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism though to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism. These texts are approached both on their own terms as individual formulations of the goals and procedures (literary, aesthetic and political) that characterized the work of these writers, and as key documents of the literary school or movement to which these writers belonged.

Author : Eran Dorfman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000763294

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Double Trouble by Eran Dorfman Pdf

The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions, forms, and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions, Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by Postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently, it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other, identity and difference, philosophy and literature, theory and praxis.

Author : Deborah Cogan Thacker,Jean Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134629756

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Introducing Children's Literature by Deborah Cogan Thacker,Jean Webb Pdf

Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by the children's literature of the time. Each section begins with a general chapter, which explains the relationship between the major issues of each literary period and the formal and thematic qualities of children's texts. Close readings of selected texts follow to demonstrate the key defining characteristics of the form of writing and the literary movements. Original in its approach, this book sets children's literature within the context of literary movements and adult literature. It is essential reading for students studying writing for children. Books discussed include: *Louisa May Alcott's Little Women * Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies *Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland *Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz *Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden *P.L.Travers' Mary Poppins *E.B.White's Charlotte's Web *Philip Pullman's Clockwork.

Author : Diane Elam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000639339

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Romancing the Postmodern by Diane Elam Pdf

By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature’s most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history. Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism’s divided relation to modernism and romance’s difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.

Author : James Seaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107026100

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Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism by James Seaton Pdf

This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions - the Platonic, Neoplatonic, and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle. There are many histories of literary criticism, but this is the first to clarify our understanding of the many seemingly incommensurable approaches employed over the centuries by reference to the three traditions. Making its case by careful analyses of individual critics, the book argues for the relevance of the humanistic tradition in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Author : Carmen Casaliggi,Paul March-Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136273490

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Legacies of Romanticism by Carmen Casaliggi,Paul March-Russell Pdf

This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The authors consider the changing notion of Romanticism, looking at the diversity of its writers, the applicability of the term, and the ways in which Romanticism has been reconstituted. The chapters cover relevant historical periods and literary trends, including the Romantic Gothic, the Victorian era, and Modernism as part of a dialectical response to the Romantic legacy. Contributors also examine how Romanticism has been reconstituted within postmodern and postcolonial literature as both a reassessment of the Modernist critique and of the imperial contexts that have throughout this time-frame underpinned the Romantic legacy, bringing into focus the contemporaneity of Romanticism and its political legacy. This collection reveals the diversity and continuing relevance of the genre in new and exciting ways, offering insights into writers such as Browning, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Lewis, MacNeice, and Auster.

Author : Jos De Mul
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791442179

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Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy by Jos De Mul Pdf

In this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of our present culture, which oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony. Along the way, he engages the work of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Habermas, Lacan, Barthes, and Derrida; visual artists Magritte and Stella; poets Georg and Coleridge; and composers Schonberg, Cage, and Reich, among others, providing a sort of intellectual history of Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist "tempers."

Author : Martin Travers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : European literature
ISBN : 0333594541

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An Introduction to Modern European Literature by Martin Travers Pdf

"Each chapter concludes with a detailed chronology of the major literary texts of each movement, covering fiction, drama and poetry."--Cover.

Author : Richard Kearney,David M. Rasmussen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631216103

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Continental Aesthetics by Richard Kearney,David M. Rasmussen Pdf

This comprehensive anthology provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through Modernism to Postmodernism, the volume includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including works by Schiller, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Luk?cs, Habermas, Foucault, Kristeva, and Derrida.

Author : Christian Quendler
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 363136718X

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From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction by Christian Quendler Pdf

This study represents a comparison between two radical gestures of literary self-reflexivity: romantic irony and postmodernist metafiction. It examines the impact of early German romantic theory and its central concept of irony on German and English romantic narrative fiction and relates the same to postmodernist self-reflexive novels, including its British and American variants. A primary objective of this comparison is to account for the radical skepticism that postmodernist metafiction voices with respect to the paramount philosophical question of truth and reality. The immanent tension between an absolute idealistic and a radically skeptic position which romantic irony articulates and enacts is conceived of as an important and instructive link to the understanding of postmodernism.

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521804817

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The Persistence of Romanticism by Richard Eldridge Pdf

This volume, first published in 2001, argues that Romantic thought remains central to both artistic work and philosophical understanding.