Defining Literary Criticism

Defining Literary Criticism

Author: Carol Atherton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-09-27

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0230501079

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Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an examination of the reforms to A-Level literature.


Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.


The Event of Literature

The Event of Literature

Author: Terry Eagleton

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0300178816

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Offers a thorough examination of the philosophy of literature, looking at the place of literature in human culture, what literature can be defined as and much more.


Theory of Literature

Theory of Literature

Author: Rene Wellek

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2024-04-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781628972832

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Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.


Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism

Author: Joseph North

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0674967739

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Critical Revolution Turns Right -- 2. The Scholarly Turn -- 3. The Historicist/Contextualist Paradigm -- 4. The Critical Unconscious -- Conclusion: The Future of Criticism -- Appendix: The Critical Paradigm and T.S. Eliot -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index


Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics

Author: Averroës

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Aristotle's Poetics has held the attention of scholars and authors through the ages, and Averroes has long been known as "the commentator" on Aristotle. His Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics is important because of its striking content. Here, an author steeped in Aristotle's thought and highly familiar with an entirely different poetical tradition shows in careful detail what is commendable about Greek poetics and commendable as well as blameworthy about Arabic poetics.


The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism

The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism

Author: Joseph Childers

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780231072434

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More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.


The Definition of Literature and Other Essays

The Definition of Literature and Other Essays

Author: W. W. Robson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984-07-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521318471

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Professor Robson considers particular works and authors in the light of the preceding discussion of critical principles.