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Author: Joel Elias Spingarn
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essay examining the history of literary criticism in the Renaissance, with a focus on the sixteenth century. Divided into three sections devoted to: Italian criticism from Dante to Tasso, French criticism from Du Bellay to Boileau, and English criticism from Ascham to Milton.
Author: Brian Vickers
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780199261369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging compilation of texts illustrates clearly the wide variety of criticism of English literature on offer during the Renaissance period by numerous critics.
Author: Heather Dubrow
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-10-19
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0226167666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations of that effort are reflected in the scope of this collection. Rather than merely providing a sampler of any single critical movement, The Historical Renaissance represents the range of ways scholars and critics are fusing what many would once have distinguished as "literary" and "historical" concerns The volume includes studies of mid-Tudor culture as well as of Elizabethan and Stuart periods. The scope of the collection is also manifest in its list of contributors. They include historians and literary critics, and their work spans he spectrum from more traditional methods to those characteristic of what has been termed "New Historicism."One aim of the book is to investigate the apparent division between these older and more current approaches. Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier evaluate the contemporary interest in historical studies of the Renaissance, relating it to previous developments in the field, surveying its achievements and limitations, and suggesting new directions for future work.
Author: Harry Blamires
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1991-08-16
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1349214957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.
Author: William M. Russell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2020-09-21
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1644531925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word "critic" began, for the first time, to suggest expertise in literary judgment. Yet the conspicuously ambivalent attitude of these critics toward criticism—and the persistent fear that they would be misunderstood, marginalized, scapegoated, or otherwise "branded with the dignity of a critic"—suggests that the position of the critic in this period was uncertain. In Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England, William Russell reveals that the critics of the English Renaissance did not passively absorb their practice from Continental and classical sources but actively invented it in response to a confluence of social and intellectual factors. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
Author: Andy Mousley
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000-07-07
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike other introductions to literary theory, this distinctive book offers a sustained discussion of a specific period of English literature. Avoiding the danger of employing theories as templates, the author uses Renaissance drama and contemporary theory to question and illuminate each other. It provides a comprehensive account of key modern literary theories and presents detailed applications of them to a wide range of Renaissance plays. It also offers a new way of thinking about the relationship of modern literary theory to its main predecessor, humanism. Finally, it writes a history, which Renaissance drama and modern theory are seen as sharing, of the antagonisms and attempted reconciliations between signs and psyche, objects and subjects, history and self, and language and the human.
Author: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1472531825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ranciere continue to be central to literary studies. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the explosion of new theoretical approaches that has seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in the institutional settings of the humanities today. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century covers such issues as: The institutional history of theory in the academy The case against theory, from the 1970s to today Critical reading, theory and the wider world Keystone works in contemporary theory New directions and theory's many futures Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9780521300087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780521300124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.
Author: Joel Elias Spingarn
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 372
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