The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism

Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691066264

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The Skeptic Disposition in Contemporary Criticism by Eugene Goodheart Pdf

Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400862238

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The Skeptic Disposition by Eugene Goodheart Pdf

Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values. "[This book] is a fair-minded, generous critique of the deconstructionist theories of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and their followers. These writers have argued that language is so inherently slippery it can never express a speaker's intended meaning. The critic's role, in their view, is to explore the contradictions, subtexts, and metaphorical byways of works that may be most radically deceptive when they appear simple. Critics have castigated this language-centered skepticism as a form of nihilism geared to multiply numbingly similar readings of already familiar texts. Mr. Goodheart's objection is more subtle. He suggests that the philosophical orientation of deconstructive critics leads them to overemphasize the tricky propositional sense of words at the expense of the broader impact of literature--its power to wound, thrill, or transform us."--Morris Dickstein, The New York Times Book Review Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400854851

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The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism by Eugene Goodheart Pdf

Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Michael Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226251417

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Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism by Michael Fischer Pdf

Cavell is read avidly by students of film, television, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom he offers major readings of Thoreau. Fischer (English, U. of New Mexico) shows why Cavell's work is also of particular relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory. Paper edition (0-226-25141-1) is available for $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Thomas Docherty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0198183585

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Alterities by Thomas Docherty Pdf

Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino, with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary, with cinema from popular to art-film, and with political theory from Marx to Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Badiou, Thomas Docherty intervenes in all the major contemporary cultural debates to propose and practice a new criticism, whose theoretical foundations lie in a postmodern ethics, ecopolitics, and an austere attention to the radical difficulties of art. Bound together by the cohesive drive of Docherty's intelligence and the coerciveness of the arguments he enlarges about alterity and historicity, Alterities rehabilitates the question of why we bother about art, and proposes new modes of critical engagement with contemporary culture

Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521300126

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism by George Alexander Kennedy Pdf

The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.

Author : Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438424842

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The Rhetoric of Failure by Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Pdf

Author : J.P. Sullivan,Irene J.F. de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329263

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Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature by J.P. Sullivan,Irene J.F. de Jong Pdf

In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsästhetik, Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute, not least among classical scholars, they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the mentalité of Greece and Rome. In an attempt to clarify issues in the debate, the eleven contributors to this volume were asked to produce a representative collection of essays to illustrate the applicability of some of the new approaches to Greek and Latin authors or literary forms and problems. The scope of the volume was deliberately limited to literary investigation, broadly construed, of Greek and Roman authors. Broader areas of the history and culture of the ancient world impinge in the essays, but are not their central focus. The volume also contains a separate bibliography, offering for the first time a complete bibliography of classical studies which incorporate modern critical theory.

Author : S. Gupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230801295

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Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies by S. Gupta Pdf

This study presents a critique of social constructionist identity politics, which is distinguished from specific identity-based political positions, from within and with social constructionist commitments. Gupta examines the institutionalization of social constructionist identity politics in literary studies, considering the notions of canonicity.

Author : François Jost,Melvin J. Friedman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133637

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Aesthetics and the Literature of Ideas by François Jost,Melvin J. Friedman Pdf

This collection explores the aesthetic principles that pervade all sectors of human activities involving intellectual perceptiveness. The three areas of investigation are aesthetics and rationality in the realm of literary history and criticism; the genres and meanings in the metamorphosis of the arts: and aesthetics in literature, society, and politics.

Author : Art Berman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0252060024

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From the New Criticism to Deconstruction by Art Berman Pdf

From the New Criticism to Deconstruction traces the transitions in American critical theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s. It focuses on the influence of French structuralism and post-structuralism on American deconstruction within a wide-ranging context that includes literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, technology, and politics.

Author : Robert Eaglestone
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474467957

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Ethical Criticism by Robert Eaglestone Pdf

What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticism seeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as 'theory'. The book appraises current arguments about the ethics of criticism and, finding them wanting, turns to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Described as 'the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century', Levinas' thought has had a profound influence on a number of significant contemporary thinkers. By paying close attention to his major writings, Robert Eaglestone argues cogently and persuasively for a new understanding of the ethical task of criticism and theory.

Author : Richard Freadman,Seumas Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521380355

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Re-Thinking Theory by Richard Freadman,Seumas Miller Pdf

These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of modern theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by contemporary literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse.

Author : William Schultz,Lewis L.B. Fried
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315470238

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Jacques Derrida (Routledge Revivals) by William Schultz,Lewis L.B. Fried Pdf

First published in 1992, this book represents the first major attempt to compile a bibliography of Derrida’s work and scholarship about his work. It attempts to be comprehensive rather than selective, listing primary and secondary works from the year of Derrida’s Master’s thesis in 1954 up until 1991, and is extensively annotated. It arranges under article type a huge number of works from scholars across numerous fields — reflecting the interdisciplinary and controversial nature of Deconstruction. The substantial introduction and annotations also make this bibliography, in part, a critical guide and as such will make a highly useful reference tool for those studying his philosophy.

Author : Delia da Sousa Correa,W. R. Owens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135219116

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The Handbook to Literary Research by Delia da Sousa Correa,W. R. Owens Pdf

The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the differences between countries and institutions, and providing a range of key examples. This fully updated second edition is divided into five sections which cover: tools of the trade – a brand new chapter outlining how to make the most of literary resources textual scholarship and book history – explains key concepts and variations in editing, publishing and bibliography issues and approaches in literary research – presents a critical overview of theoretical approaches essential to literary studies the dissertation – demonstrates how to approach, plan and write this important research exercise glossary – provides comprehensive explanations of key terms, and a checklist of resources. Packed with useful tips and exercises and written by scholars with extensive experience as teachers and researchers in the field, this volume is the ideal Handbook for those beginning postgraduate research in literature.