The Rebirth Of American Literary Theory And Criticism

Author : H. Aram Veeser
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785274381

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The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism by H. Aram Veeser Pdf

The interviewees of this volume fall into three groups: the main players who brought about the rise of theory (Fish, Gallop, Spivak, Bhabha); a younger group of post-theorists (Bérubé, Dimock, Nealon, Warren); the anti-critique theorists (Felski); and new order theorists (Puchner, Wolfe). They discuss elemental questions, such as trying to grasp what was logic and what was rhetoric; trying to see down the road while fog and turmoil held visibility to arm’s length; and trying to pick legible meanings out of the cultural blanket of deafening noise. Theorists were not only good thinkers but also pioneers who were seeking profound transformations.

Author : Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135218003

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American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s by Vincent B. Leitch Pdf

American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day. Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition: provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the impact of major schools and movements examines the social and cultural background to literary research, considering the role of key theories and practices provides profiles of major figures and influential texts, outlining the connections among theorists presents a new chapter on developments since the 1980s, including discussions of feminist, queer, postcolonial and ethnic criticism. Comprehensive and engaging, this book offers a crucial overview of the development of literary studies in American universities, and a springboard to further research for all those interested in the development and study of Literature.

Author : Michael Paul Spikes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570034982

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Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory by Michael Paul Spikes Pdf

In this revised edition of Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory, Michael P. Spikes adds Stanley Fish and Susan Bordo to the critics whose careers, key texts, and central assumptions he discusses in introducing readers to developments in American literary theory during the past thirty-five years. Underscoring the largely heterogeneous mix of strategies and suppositions that these critics, along with Paul de Man, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edward W. Said, and Stephen Greenblatt, represent, Spikes offers concise analyses of their principal claims and illustrates how their works reflect a range of critical perspectives, from deconstruction, African American studies, and reader-response theory to political criticism, the new historicism, and feminism.

Author : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781770488175

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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction – Second Edition by Anne H. Stevens Pdf

Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The new edition has been updated throughout, including new or expanded coverage of Marxist theory, disability studies, affect theory, and Critical Race Theory.

Author : Norman Foerster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154551557

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American criticism by Norman Foerster Pdf

Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900986

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Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present by Chris Baldick Pdf

Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of the novel and models of the literary canon. The book will help to define and account for the major developments in literary criticism during this century exploring the full diversity of critical work from major critics such as T S Eliot and F R Leavis to minor but fascinating figures and critical schools. Unlike most guides to modern literary theory, its focus is firmly on developments within the English speaking world.

Author : William E. Cain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317777205

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Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies by William E. Cain Pdf

Three extensively revised essays by Mailloux, an influential proponent of cultural studies, describe his approach in depth. Following are ten essays, nine of them written specifically for this volume, by scholars who offer various perspectives on Mailloux's ideas. Each essayist weighs the strengths and limitations of the cultural studies movement in general and Mailloux's approach in particular.

Author : Murray Krieger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421431239

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The Institution of Theory by Murray Krieger Pdf

Originally published in 1994. In The Institution of Theory, Murray Krieger examines, at once sympathetically and critically, the process by which theory has become institutionalized in the American academy and the consequences of theory as an academic institution. He traces the transformation of literary theory into critical theory and relates it to changes in the place of literature within questions about discourse at large. And he faces the costs as well as the gains of the recent denial of privilege to the literary. To support his view of the issues at stake in current theoretical debates, Krieger surveys both the history of American criticism and the general history of literary theory in the West. He sees divisions in each of them that foreshadow the current debates: in the first a conflict between the social and the aesthetic functions of literature, and in the second a conflict between the treatment of literature as a reflection of a culture's ideology and the treatment of literature as a subversion of that ideology. To what extent, he asks, are our debates new and to what extent are they merely refashioned versions of those we have always had?

Author : William E. Cain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106014697848

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The Crisis in Criticism by William E. Cain Pdf

"This book is a statement of my views on a number of problems in literary theory and contemporary criticism. But it is also - as any theoretical study must be - a progress report, a record of inquiry that has not yet concluded. In a sense, a book on "theory" cannot really end. At a certain point, work on it ceases, even though one continues to think critically and skeptically about the problems - and the solutions - that the book contains." -- Preface. p. xi.

Author : Victor A. Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106007005488

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American Critics at Work by Victor A. Kramer Pdf

". . . A valuable anthology of essays that reflect the wide spectrum of critical opinion in American studies today. . . . [It] provides a good survey of contemporary criticism and helps to clarify the relationship of various movements to each other and to literary theory."SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW

Author : William J. Spurlin,Michael Fischer
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010476625

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The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory by William J. Spurlin,Michael Fischer Pdf

Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615566

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Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson Pdf

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : American literature
ISBN : LCCN:82199457

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American Literary Criticism by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. Aram Veeser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136932571

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Edward Said by H. Aram Veeser Pdf

This insightful critical biography shows us an Edward Said we did not know. H. Aram Veeser brings forth not the Said of tabloid culture, or Said the remote philosopher, but the actual man, embedded in the politics of the Middle East but soaked in the values of the West and struggling to advance the best European ideas. Veeser shows the organic ties connecting his life, politics, and criticism. Drawing on what he learned over 35 years as Said's student and skeptical admirer, Veeser uses never-before-published interviews, debate transcripts, and photographs to discover a Said who had few inhibitions and loathed conventional routine. He stood for originality, loved unique ideas, wore marvelous clothes, and fought with molten fury. For twenty years he embraced and rejected, at the same time, not only the West, but also literary theory and the PLO. At last, his disgust with business-as-usual politics and criticism marooned him on the sidelines of both. The candid tale of Said's rise from elite academic precincts to the world stage transforms not only our understanding of Said—the man and the myth—but also our perception of how intellectuals can make their way in the world.

Author : Adebayo Oyebade
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000825916

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Transformations in Africana Studies by Adebayo Oyebade Pdf

This book introduces readers to the rich discipline of Africana Studies, reflecting on how it has developed over the last fifty years as an intellectual enterprise for knowledge production about Africa and the African diaspora. The African world has always had a wealth of indigenous knowledge systems, but for the greater part of the scholarly history, hegemonic Western epistemologies have denied the authenticity of African indigenous ways of knowing. The post-colonial era has seen steady and deliberate efforts to expand the frontiers of knowledge about black people and their societies, and to Africanize such bodies of knowledge in all fields of human endeavor. This book reflects on how the multidisciplinary discipline of Africana Studies has transformed and reinvented itself as it has sought to advance knowledge about the African world. The contributors consider the foundations of the discipline, its key theories and methods of knowledge production, and how it interacts with popular culture, Women’s Studies, and other area studies such as Ethnic and Afro-Latinix Studies. Bringing together rich insights from across history, religion, literature, art, sociology, and philosophy, this book will be an important read for students and researchers of Africa and Africana Studies.