Twentieth Century Humanist Critics

Author : William Calin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802094759

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Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics by William Calin Pdf

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Béguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. William Calin first considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. Calin explores their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our current theoretical debates. He then goes on to show how all eight form a current in the history of criticism related to both humanism and modernism. Underscoring the international, cosmopolitian aspects of literary scholarship in the twentieth century, The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics brings together humanist critical traditions from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America and reveals the surprising extent to which, in various languages and academic systems, critics were posing similar questions and offering a gamut of similar responses.

Author : William Calin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015073865548

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Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics by William Calin Pdf

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Béguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. William Calin first considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. Calin explores their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our current theoretical debates. He then goes on to show how all eight form a current in the history of criticism related to both humanism and modernism. Underscoring the international, cosmopolitian aspects of literary scholarship in the twentieth century, The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics brings together humanist critical traditions from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America and reveals the surprising extent to which, in various languages and academic systems, critics were posing similar questions and offering a gamut of similar responses.

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521808073

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Comparative Criticism: Volume 23, Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century by E. S. Shaffer Pdf

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at the Humanist Tradition in the Twentieth Century and articles will include: The Book in the Totalitarian Context; Lorenzo Valla and Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Humanism; Hitler's Berlin; Civilisation and barbarism: an anthropological approach; Walter Pater to Adrian Stokes: psychoanalysis and humanism; Art History and Humanist Tradition in the Stefan George Circle. The winning entries in the 1999-2000 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.

Author : Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317005834

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Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism by Kathy Cawsey Pdf

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work, arguing these ideas best explain the diversity of interpretation in Chaucer criticism. Further, Cawsey suggests few studies of Chaucer's own understanding of audience have been done, in part because Chaucer criticism has been conditioned by scholars' latent suppositions about Chaucer's own audience. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey also provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.

Author : Jenny Roch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638466660

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'Late twentieth-century theory can be considered first and foremost as a reaction against the tenets of liberal humanism' by Jenny Roch Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B3 (15/20), University of Glasgow (Department of Scottish Literature), course: Theory and Scottish Literature, language: English, abstract: Liberal humanism. The ‘theory’ that has been in place and in use to read texts since pretty much the beginning of literary history. Indeed, with its goal to convey timeless truths, liberal humanism in literature has even been seen as a means to educate the masses, and carry through the ‘ideological task which religion left off.’ Liberal humanism has been largely uncontested until, in the late twentieth century, other theories take over on what has been a year-long tradition. These interesting facts do indeed pose some questions on why, first of all, liberal humanism was uncontested for such a long time, but also, why then, so suddenly it seems, it was overthrown by modern day literary theory and put off as ‘an ideological smokescreen for the oppressive mystifications of modern society and culture, the marginalisation and oppression of the multitudes of human beings in whose name it pretends to speak.’

Author : Hughson T. Ong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725250130

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McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry: Volume 16, 2014-2015 by Hughson T. Ong Pdf

The McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry is an electronic and print journal that seeks to provide pastors, educators, and interested lay persons with the fruits of theological, biblical, and professional studies in an accessible form. Published by McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, it continues the heritage of scholarly inquiry and theological dialogue represented by the College's previous print publications: the Theological Bulletin, Theodolite, and the McMaster Journal of Theology.

Author : Gale Research Company
Publisher : Twentieth-Century Literary Cri
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015068882128

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Twentieth-century Literary Criticism by Gale Research Company Pdf

Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Author : Aaron Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350308909

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Twentieth-Century Irish Literature by Aaron Kelly Pdf

This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory, making clear the key critical debates, themes and issues surrounding a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It relates Irish literature to debates surrounding issues such as national identity, modernity and the Revival period, armed struggle, gender, sexuality and post colonialism.

Author : Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691157009

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius Pdf

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

Author : Gorham Bert Munson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Humanism
ISBN : UCAL:B3618806

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The Dilemma of the Liberated by Gorham Bert Munson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487537753

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The Reception of Northrop Frye by Anonim Pdf

The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton’s 1983 rhetorical question, "Who now reads Frye?" In The Reception of Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham catalogues what has been written about Frye – books, articles, translations, dissertations and theses, and reviews – in order to demonstrate that the attention Frye’s work has received from the beginning has progressed at a geomantic rate. Denham also explores what we can discover once we have a fairly complete record of Frye’s reception in front of us – such as Hayden White’s theory of emplotments applied to historical writing and Byron Almén’s theory of musical narrative. The sheer quantity of what has been written about Frye reveals that the only valid response to Eagleton’s rhetorical question is "a very large and growing number," the growth being not incremental but exponential.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438471631

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The Pen Confronts the Sword by Avihu Zakai Pdf

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime. During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer’s The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf(culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history. “This book provides a remarkable synopsis of four well-known, but disparate, responses to Nazism and links them as part of a humanist cultural war with dictatorship. By combining the readings of Mann, Cassirer, Auerbach, and Adorno/Horkheimer, we gain a comprehensive view of an ideal of Western culture composed from very different directions. This approach unlocks a reading of these classics of modern scholarship that is usually lost either in their specific reception by subdisciplines or in their isolated reading as brilliant works.” — Gregory B. Moynahan, author of Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany: 1899–1919

Author : Lee Oser
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826217752

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The Return of Christian Humanism by Lee Oser Pdf

"Oser examines the twentieth-century literary clash between a dogmatically relativist modernism and a robust revival of Christian humanism. Reviewing English literature from Chaucer to Beckett, and the thoughts of philosophers, theologians, and modern literary critics, Oser challenges the assumption that Christian orthodoxy is incompatible with humanism, freedom, and democracy"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Wayne Deakin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031304941

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Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism by Wayne Deakin Pdf

This books delineates the seismic shifts of the twentieth century humanities by way of a close examination of the dynamic landscape of modern language, criticism and philosophy. In this manner, it argues that both philosophy and literary criticism have dovetailed in the twenty-first century. Starting out as a survey of literary criticism in its broadest terms, later chapters - which are more expository - assess recent movements within modern literary theory. These are located with respect to the post-Russell and Fregean “linguistic turn” in philosophy. Designed for specialists and non-specialists alike; philosophers, literary critics and even students of the modern critical tradition, the argument takes a novel stance towards modern criticism, language and philosophy, arguing for a return to a more formalist and rhetorical approach to literary criticism, while taking care not to indulge too many “political pathologies” when engaging with texts.

Author : Dennis Poupard
Publisher : Twentieth-Century Literary Cri
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810302233

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Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism by Dennis Poupard Pdf

Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.