Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Institute of United States Studies University of London
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark Royden Winchell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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During a career that spanned sixty years, Cleanth Brooks was involved in most of the major controversies facing the humanities from the 1930s until his death in 1994. He was arguably the most important American literary critic of the mid-twentieth century. Because it is impossible to understand modern literary criticism apart from Cleanth Brooks, or Cleanth Brooks apart from modern literary criticism, Mark Royden Winchell gives us not only an account of one man's influence but also a survey of literary criticism in twentieth-century America. More than any other individual, Brooks helped steer literary study away from historical and philological scholarship by emphasizing the autonomy of the text. He applied the methods of what came to be called the New Criticism, not only to the modernist works for which these methods were created, but to the entire canon of English poetry, from John Donne to William Butler Yeats. In his many critical books, especially The Well Wrought Urn and the textbooks he edited with Robert Penn Warren and others, Brooks taught several generations of students how to read literature without prejudice or preconception.

Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156957052
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Critical analyses of ten English poems reveal changing styles from Donne to Yeats.

Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807116012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkner's fiction, Cleanth Brooks's William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country explores the Mississippi writer's fictional county and the commanding role it played in so much of his work. Brooks shows that Faulkner's strong attachment to his region, with its rich particularity and deep sense of community, gave him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world.Books's consideration of such novels as Light in August, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, and Intruder in the Dust shows the ways in which Faulkner used Yoknapatawpha County to examine the characteristic themes of the twentieth century. Contending that a complete understanding of Faulkner's writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to "what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels. He also includes useful genealogies of Faulkner's fictional clans and a character index.

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
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Category : African American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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A book of light verse.

Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826212078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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A collection of letters exchanged by two of the 20th century's most distinguished literary figures, depicting their remarkable professional and personal relationship over the years. They respond to the writings and activities of writers including T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Robert Lowell, and offer insight into the group dynamics of the Agrarians, the community of Southern writers who played an influential role in the literature of modernism. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"This series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular seventeenth-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came."--Publishers website.

Author: Earl Richardson Knapp Daniels
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 519

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Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826209931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of literature and the role it plays in our society. He argues that the proper and essential role of literature lies in giving us our sense of community. Yet he denounces the extent to which literature, too, is now being usurped by the critics who see writing as pure language. He believes that just as religion renders truth of another sort, so literature is an expression of the "truth about human beings." More and more in this age of science, literature has "assumed the burden of providing civilization with its values." Community, Religion, and Literature offers students of literature the opportunity to understand what Cleanth Brooks was actually saying, rather than what others have said he was saying.