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Author: Victor Sawdon Pritchett
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essayist, critic, novelist, short story writer, and biographer presents 203 essays on such writers as Gibbon, Cervantes, Balzac, Flaubert, Woolf, Shaw, Twain, Garci+a7a Lorca, Updike, Rushdie, and others. - Google Books.
Author: Erich Auerbach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0691234523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImportant essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first time Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing remains unplumbed. Time, History, and Literature presents a wide selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world. Of the twenty essays culled for this volume from the full length of his career, twelve have never appeared in English before, and one is being published for the first time. Foregrounded in this major new collection are Auerbach's complex relationship to the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his philosophy of time and history, and his theory of human ethics and responsible action. Auerbach effectively charts out the difficult discovery, in the wake of Christianity, of the sensuous, the earthly, and the human and social worlds. A number of the essays reflect Auerbach's responses to an increasingly hostile National Socialist environment. These writings offer a challenging model of intellectual engagement, one that remains as compelling today as it was in Auerbach's own time.
Author: George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe state of bibliography today (1979) -- Physical bibliography in the twentieth century (1979) -- The evolving role of bibliography (1984) -- Issues in bibliographical studies since 1942 (1992) -- Years on : bibliography then and now (2003) -- Thoughts on the centenary of The Bibliographical Society of America (2004) -- The historiography of American literary publishing (1965) -- The Bibliographical Society's News sheet, 1894-1920 (1967) -- The descriptive bibliography of American authors (1968) -- Copyright records and the bibliographer (1969) -- The periodical literature of English and American bibliography (1968) -- Indianapolis in the world of books (1973) -- Bibliography and science (1974) -- The descriptive bibliography of eighteenth-century books (1975) -- The centennial meeting and convocation of the Grolier Club (1984) -- Exhibitions at the Grolier Club (1984) -- The varieties of scholarly editing (1985) -- The fiftieth anniversary of The Bibliographical Society of the University Of Virginia (1997) -- A history of Studies in bibliography : the first fifty years (1997) -- A brief history of the English short-title catalogue in North America (1998) -- Some thoughts on catalogues (2008) -- The textual criticism of visual and aural works (2008) -- Bibliographical history as a field of study (1988).
Author: Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1421432382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.
Author: Jonathan Hart
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 131794514X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of original essays explores three important areas in comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the boundaries between history and fiction;women as writers and subjects; and the connection between the early modern, modern and postmodern. New history and new literary studies look at innovative ways to see past cultures in a new light. Traditional methods are used to new ends and writers who are familiar within their cultures are translated to other cultures. This study promotes an expanded understanding of our cultural artifacts in a rapidly changing present. It discusses English-speaking culture in the early modern period in the context of other European cultures and relates Europe to other parts of the world, most notably America. After grounding the discussion of culture in history, identity, dialogue as a genre that crosses the boundaries between philosophy and fiction, the rhetoric of prefaces to historical collections, cosmographies and histories that share something with the techniques of literary and forensic rhetoric, the book proceeds to discuss two central issues in cultural studies today: gender and postmodernity. The final section of the book provides a general assessment through early modern texts of modernity and postmodernity.
Author: Katherine Pickering Antonova
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0190271159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a step-by-step guide to the typical assignments of any undergraduate or master's-level history program in North America. Effective writing is a process of discovery, achieved through the continual act of making choices--what to include or exclude, how to order elements, and which style to choose--each according to the author's goals and the intended audience. The book integrates reading and specialized vocabulary with writing and revision and addresses the evolving nature of digital media while teaching the terms and logic of traditional sources and the reasons for citation as well as the styles. This approach to writing not only helps students produce an effective final product and build from writing simple, short essays to completing a full research thesis, it also teaches students why and how an essay is effective, empowering them to approach new writing challenges with the freedom to find their own voice.
Author: Lowry Nelson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0271041625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2010-12-20
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1551119927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1258
ISBN-13: 9780520220614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Essays provides an authoritative critical, annotated edition of Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects.
Author: Simon Barker
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1441148027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development.
