Author: John Preston HoskinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Biological Analogy in Literary Criticism
Author: John Preston HoskinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Biological Analogy in Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Preston HoskinsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333340988
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Excerpt from Biological Analogy in Literary Criticism Lastly, be it observed, the emotions these naturalistic tragedies arouse in us are quite distinct from the traditional pity and fear of the heroic tragedy of character. Hauptmann's tragedies may be said to arouse sympathy and pity, but this sympathy and pity is altruistic. In the traditional tragedy pity arises from the fact that we see ourselves in the suffering hero. He appeals to us by virtue of the universal human element common to him and to us. We imagine ourselves in his place. This pity is egoistic. In Hauptmann the objective, economic, and social as contrasted with the universally human point of view forbids this. Pity arises from the altruistic and social attitude. It is a feeling for, not a feeling with, suffering humanity, something much more nearly akin to common Christian sympathy than to the tragic fear and pity of either Shakspere or Aristotle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages
Author: O. B. Hardison Jr.Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421430878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest in themselves, are also important for the light they shed on three historical and critical problems: the relation of drama to ritual, the nature of dramatic form, and the development of representational techniques. Hardison's approach is based on the history of the Christian liturgy, on critical theories concerning the kinship of ritual and drama, and on close analysis of the chronology and content of the texts themselves. Beginning with liturgical commentaries of the ninth century, Hardison shows that writers of the period consciously interpreted the Mass and cycle of the church year in dramatic terms. By reconstructing the services themselves, he shows that they had an emphatic dramatic structure that reached its climax with the celebration of the Resurrection. Turning to the history of the Latin Resurrection play, Hardison suggests that the famous Quem quaeritis—the earliest of all medieval dramas—is best understood in relation to the baptismal rites of the Easter Vigil service. He sets forth a theory of the original form and function of the play based on the content of the earliest manuscripts as well as on vestigial ceremonial elements that survive in the later ones. Three texts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries are analyzed with emphasis on the change from ritual to representational modes. Hardison discusses why the form inherited from ritual remained unchanged, while the technique became increasingly representational. In studying the earliest vernacular dramas, Hardison examines the use of nonritual materials as sources of dramatic form, the influence of representational concepts of space and time on staging, and the development of nonceremonial techniques for composition of dialogue. The sudden appearance of these elements in vernacular drama suggests the existence of a hitherto unsuspected vernacular tradition considerably older than the earliest surviving vernacular plays.
Literary Criticism
Author: Gay Wilson AllenPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814311585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Selections from 39 critics.
Modern Philology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-56 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
Biological Analogies in History
Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649281398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Peter ChildsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134234740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels. With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes: an exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique new definitions of contemporary critical issues such as Cybercriticism and Globalization complete coverage of traditional and radical approaches to the study and production of literature thorough accounts of critical terminology and analyses of key academic debates full cross-referencing throughout and suggestions for further reading. Covering both long-established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.
Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition
Author: G. R. Boys-StonesPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191528862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. This volume provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes'. They examine metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
Author: J. A. CuddonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118326008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. Written in a clear and highly readable style Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day Broad intellectual and cultural range Expands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminology New material is particularly focused in areas such as gender studies and queer theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, narrative theory, and cultural studies. Existing entries have been edited to ensure that topics receive balanced treatment
Chaos and Cosmos
Author: Heidi C. M. ScottPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271065362
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology.
