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Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals)

Kenneth Quinn
Latin Explorations Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Kenneth Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317745884

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Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals) by Kenneth Quinn Pdf

Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies – Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail, isolated from contemporary ideas about poetry and dominated by barriers between ‘textual’, ‘exegetical’ and ‘aesthetic’ criticism. Kenneth Quinn discerns in Roman poetry of this period the adolescence, maturity and decay of a single coherent tradition whose internal unity surpasses differences of form. His argument attempts to reverse the dissociation of purely academic research from appreciative criticism, whilst also incorporating the work of textual scholars. Each chapter is supported by a detailed analysis of the texts: nearly 700 lines of poetry are discussed and translated. Latin Explorations will be of significant value not only to students of the Classics, but also to the ‘Latinless’ general reader who is interested in Roman literature.

Latin Literature of the Fourth Century (Routledge Revivals)

J. W. Binns
Latin Literature of the Fourth Century Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : J. W. Binns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317808589

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Latin Literature of the Fourth Century (Routledge Revivals) by J. W. Binns Pdf

This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire, who have long been over-shadowed by the pre-eminence accorded since the eighteenth century to the Golden and Silver ages. Among the writers examined are Ausonius, the poet, Imperial official and tutor to Gratian; Claudian, the last major ‘classical’ poet; Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola, two of the founders of Christian Latin poetry; Symmachus, the letter writer and supporter of die-hard paganism; and St. Augustine, whose influence on Christian thought and the Middle Ages is incalculable. These essays consider how such writers responded to a world where vitality was ebbing from the old forms of political life, religion and literature, giving way to new institutions, modes of life and horizons of reflection.

The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)

Nancy Armstrong,Leonard Tennenhouse
The Violence of Representation Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Nancy Armstrong,Leonard Tennenhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317744344

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The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals) by Nancy Armstrong,Leonard Tennenhouse Pdf

First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasingly important mode of domination during the modern period as ruling ideas became a form of violence in their own right. This reissue will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in the concept of violence, and the boundaries and capacity of discourse.

Routledge Revivals: English Literature (1962)

B. Ifor Evans
Routledge Revivals English Literature 1962 Book PDF

Author : B. Ifor Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351386456

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Routledge Revivals: English Literature (1962) by B. Ifor Evans Pdf

First published in 1962, this book is a reflection on Sir Ifor Evans’s well-known A Short History of English Literature. In this reflective study, Evans wonders if it is possible to trace permanent elements in such a huge and varied mass of writings? As he moves from the Anglo-Saxon Caedmon to T.S Eliot, or from Milton to James Joyce, he finds out how, in unexpected ways, the English spirit of compromise extends into its literature, along with its love of nature and interest in the individual. In poetic imagery above all the British genius seems, typically, to have found a way of making ‘empiricism transcendental’. This book, which had its origin during the war under the aegis of the British Council, provides the reader with a stimulating passport to a very rich kingdom.

Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals)

Jonathan Crewe
Hidden Designs Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Crewe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317675372

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Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Crewe Pdf

This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader communal functions of criticism. Major Renaissance authors and their recent critics are placed under ‘suspicion’ as Crewe explores the elements of ‘criminality’ inherent in the powerful interests –personal, institutional, political and cultural – served by the literary enterprise, or channelled through it. Revisionary readings of Sidney, Spenser, Puttenham and Shakespeare are linked by a continuing commentary on the history and theoretical claims of Renaissance criticism.

Genre (Routledge Revivals)

Heather Dubrow
Genre Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Heather Dubrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317671930

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Genre (Routledge Revivals) by Heather Dubrow Pdf

This study, first published in 1982, explores and demonstrates the ways in which an awareness of literary genre can illuminate works as diverse as Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ and Berryman’s Sonnets. The first book to offer a historical survey of genre theory, it traces the history from the Greek rhetoricians to such contemporary figures as Frye and Todorov. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in which comments on genre reflect underlying aesthetic attitudes.

The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals)

Nancy Armstrong,Leonard Tennenhouse
The Ideology of Conduct Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Nancy Armstrong,Leonard Tennenhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317744320

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The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals) by Nancy Armstrong,Leonard Tennenhouse Pdf

In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women in how to make themselves desirable. This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. They did so without appearing to breed political controversy because it seemed to concern only the female. But writing for and about women in fact became a powerful instrument of hegemony as it introduced a whole new vocabulary for social relations, induced certain forms of economic behaviour as desirable in men and women respectively, and insured the reproduction of the nuclear family. It is argued, therefore, that the literature of conduct not only recorded but also assisted the production of our contemporary gender-based culture.

Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317574750

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Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Routledge Revivals) by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Pdf

The essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways. By focusing on ‘discourse’ the volume is distinguished from traditional literature by its emphasis on rhetorical structures and textual strategies, and the investment of these structures with desire, power and other aspects of subjectivity, rather than the personality of the artist or the creative process. However, in this book the human dimension is not lost. By claiming that the structures in question are not merely linguistic, semiotic, or narratological (although they are all of these), the human dimension is returned- not ‘in the raw’, as in traditional approaches, but through the traces it leaves in the text, as activated by its reading. This book is ideal for students of literature and psychoanalytical theory.

The Anatomy of Literary Studies (Routledge Revivals)

Marjorie Boulton
The Anatomy of Literary Studies Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Marjorie Boulton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317936169

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The Anatomy of Literary Studies (Routledge Revivals) by Marjorie Boulton Pdf

First published in 1980, The Anatomy of Literary Studies provides students of English Literature with a clearer understanding of the significance and scope of the subject and a comprehensive background to its study. It gives pointers towards intellectual integrity and advice on independent study, libraries, essay writing and examinations. This reissue of Marjorie Boulton’s classic work will be of particular value to students studying English at university or those applying to a course who would like a fuller understanding of what it might entail.

Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 (Routledge Revivals)

Alan Sinfield
Literature in Protestant England 1560 1660 Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135228507

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Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 (Routledge Revivals) by Alan Sinfield Pdf

The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983, assesses the importance of the prevailing religious climate to the work of several major writers, both in and out of sympathy with the contemporary protestantism. It is argued that the accepted view of the period as essentially 'Christian-Humanist' obscures the harsher aspects of a Calvinism which throws into relief the agonies of a writer like Donne, the acceptances of one like George Herbert. Many writers rejected more or less explicitly the Christian dogma, through the heroic assertion of human potential in Shakespearean and other dramatic characters, the nihilism of Marlowe, or the secular rationalism of Bacon and Hobbes. Milton is central to this complex weft of belief and rejection, piety and atheism, acceptance of predestination and determination to accept fate, that characterises the period. Finally, Sinfield shows how this protestantism disintegrated under the strain of internal contradictions and external pressures, and in the process helped to stimulate secularism. In this original and clearly written book, scholarship is deployed unobstrusively to place many major works in an unaccustomed and stimulating perspective.

Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986)

Jean Radford
Routledge Revivals The Progress of Romance 1986 Book PDF

Author : Jean Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315447704

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Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986) by Jean Radford Pdf

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected here reflect diverse positions and methods in the current debate: sociological, psychoanalytic and literary. Some focus more on texts or readers, others concentrate on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology. All of the essays, however, view popular forms and their uses historical in historical context — rejecting the notion they are a contaminated by-product of industrialism.

Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals)

Kathryn Hume
Fantasy and Mimesis Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317638537

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Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals) by Kathryn Hume Pdf

Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First published in 1984, this book rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even separable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis. Together, fantasy and mimesis are the twin impulses behind literary creation. In an analysis that ranges from the Icelandic sagas to science fiction, from Malory to pulp romance, Kathryn Hume systematically examines the various ways in which fantasy and mimesis contribute to literary representations of reality. A detailed and comprehensive title, this reissue will be of particular value to undergraduate literature students with an interest in literary genres and the centrality of literature to the creative imagination.

Madame Bovary (Routledge Revivals)

Rosemary Lloyd
Madame Bovary Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317629115

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Madame Bovary (Routledge Revivals) by Rosemary Lloyd Pdf

Madame Bovary ranks among the world’s most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories. First published in 1987, this study draws on both twentieth-century and traditional critical views to provide both students and scholars with a fresh analysis of the novel: its narrative techniques, social background, and underlying structures. By setting the novel in an historical context, and exploring the ways in which it offers a hinge between romanticism and realism, the book establishes a framework through which the reader can assess questions of narrative strategy, of symbolic patterning and most importantly, parody and pastiche. Throughout Madame Bovary, Rosemary Lloyd argues, a series of intertwining voices challenge assumptions about the nature of narrative and the relationship between reader and writer. This reissue will provoke and stimulate debate among students and lecturers in French and English literature, for whom Madame Bovary is a key text in the development of the novel.

Phallic Critiques (Routledge Revivals)

Peter Schwenger
Phallic Critiques Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Peter Schwenger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317569862

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Phallic Critiques (Routledge Revivals) by Peter Schwenger Pdf

Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of ‘masculine’ styles of writing in the twentieth century – an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when ‘virility has become self-conscious’. Writers who carry macho values to their extreme often subscribe to the popular feeling that writing is an effeminate activity for a real man to be engaged in. Consequently they attempt to forge ‘masculine’ style of writing in an effort to redeem language from its sexually suspect nature. These styles reveal much about the ambiguous and paradoxical attitudes of men towards their own masculine role. Peter Schwenger demonstrates the international nature of ‘masculine’ styles. His study ranges from such American authors as Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway and Philip Roth, to figures like Yukio Mishima, Alberto Moravia and Michel Leiris. This book should be of interest to students of literature.

The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

Dieter Mehl
The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136832246

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The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals) by Dieter Mehl Pdf

First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.