Author: Arthur SymonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Studies in Two Literatures
Author: Arthur SymonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Studies in Two Literatures
Author: Arthur SymonsPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500586270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
IN the past so much of the finest criticism has been J- purely the result of the occasion offered, that it is pedantic to complain of the same phenomenon in the present. The school of great critics of the beginning of the century would scarcely have made a mark but for the accident that Hazlitt and Coleridge were called upon to lecture, De Quincey and Lamb to contribute to an ephemeral journal. The formation of literary opinion is the work of coral insects. Here one builds a fragment, and there another confirms it, and these volunteers are often of more signal service than the professional historians who endeavor to follow impartially the growth of literature. Mr. Symons is of the former type; one feels that he has written largely as opportunity came to him. His subjects are fragmentary, and have been selected by others under the modification of his own fancy. This is strikingly the case with the opening section of his volume, the studies in the Elizabethan age, but it is partly true in all. The volume is a selection of what seemed most durable in the miscellaneous work of some ten or twelve years of apprenticeship to the press. Let it be said at once that Mr. Symons bears the test of republication remarkably well. There is a solidity, a unity in his view of literary objects which gives him an advantage over almost all other critics of his particular generation. He is guided, almost obstinately, by certain principles of aesthetic judgment; he adopts the same attitude towards all literary products; he is above all entirely candid, and engaged, so far as can be perceived, in "rolling" no "log." All this combines to form an intellectual austerity, which may occasionally irritate us in a single article or review, but which, in the course of a volume which is instinct with it, has an attractive side. Mr. Arthur Symons impresses the reader by his rectitude. Whether his opinions are correct must be decided by closer inquiry; but we get that satisfaction which is given by a writer who, though quite modest in delivery, is perfectly clear about his destination and entirely certain that he knows the road. In his eloquent letter of dedication he lays down the law of his own mind, and he has an amusing phrase. Having confessed himself a firm believer in a principle which is excessively questioned, he adds, naively:— "One forgets sometimes that it has entered into the brains of men to doubt anything so obvious." ....First come seven studies on plays of Shakespeare, followed by essays on Massinger and Day. These do not appear to us to call for particular notice here. The Shakespeare essays formed part of the "Henry Irving" edition of the poet, issued and fully noticed many years ago. Mr. Symons has done well to separate these from the rest of a bulky enterprise, and they are worth preserving, although somewhat juvenile in manner and showing to some excess the influence of Mr. Swinburne. The essay on Massinger is full and competent; but Mr. Symons does not strike us as having been much interested in the subject; while that on John Day suffers from the difficulty of treating a writer whose outlines are all nebulous and vague. For instance, Mr. Symons quotes a pretty line, and says that it "bears the very sign and seal of Day." But how can we know what the sign and seal are of a dramatist four-fifths of whose works are lost, and who survives on the score of a single lyrical extravaganza of great, but probably not especially characteristic, beauty? This is the traditional way of talking about the Jacobean poets, which Mr. Swinburne, following Charles Lamb, has carried to such dangerous extremes.... —The Saturday Review
Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature Vol. 2, No. 2 (2021)
Author: EditorPublisher: Global Talent Academy Ltd
ISBN: 1008992895
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature (JCSLL) is a bimonthly double-blind peer-reviewed "Premier" open access journal that represents an interdisciplinary and critical forum for analysing and discussing the various dimensions in the interplay between language, literature, and translation. It locates at the intersection of disciplines including linguistics, discourse studies, stylistic analysis, linguistic analysis of literature, comparative literature, literary criticism, translation studies, literary translation and related areas. It focuses mainly on the empirically and critically founded research on the role of language, literature, and translation in all social processes and dynamics. Articles submitted to JCSLL should bring together critical theories and concepts and in-depth, empirical, language- and literary-oriented analysis. They have to be problem-oriented and rely on well-informed contemporary as well as historical contextualisation of the analysed texts and contexts. Methodologies can be qualitative, quantitative or mixed, but must in any case be systematic and anchored in relevant linguistic, literary, and translation disciplines.
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Children's Literature Studies
Author: Matthew O. GrenbyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350308943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying children's literature at university level. Bringing together the expertise of leading international scholars, it combines practical advice with in-depth discussion of critical approaches. Wide- ranging in approach, Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook: - Considers 'children's literature' in its fullest sense, examining visual texts (such as picturebooks), films, computer games and other 'transformed' texts, as well as more traditional modes of writing for children - Offers a step-by-step guide to devising, starting and carrying out a research project (such as a dissertation or thesis), and advice on what kinds of research it is possible and profitable to undertake - Surveys the different methodologies and theoretical approaches used by children's literature scholars - Includes case studies, questions and exercises to reinforce ideas discussed in each chapter - Provides lists of further reading and a specialist glossary that will remain a useful reference resource This handbook will be an essential companion for those studying children's literature, whether as undergraduates, postgraduates, or beyond.
British Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe
Author: Aleksandra KonarzewskaPublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648897401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In the region known as Eastern and East-Central Europe, the framework provided by memory studies became highly valuable for understanding the overload of interpretations and conflicting perspectives on events during the twentieth century. The trauma of two world wars, the development of collective consciousness according to national and ethnic categories, stories of the trampled lands and lives of people, and resistance to the rule of authoritarian and totalitarian terrors—these trajectories left complex layers of identities to unfold. The following volume addresses the issue of identity as a pivot in studies of memory and literature. In this context, it addresses the question of cultural negotiation as it took shape between memory and literature, history and literature, and memory and history, with the help of contemporary authors and their works. The authors take the literature of countries such as Estonia, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia as the point of departure, and explain its significance in terms of geographical, theoretical, and thematic perspectives.
Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature
Author: Roman KatsmanPublisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others—to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war aliyah" of the recent times. Both the Russian-Israeli authors and their critics often hold different opinions of their respective roles in Israel’s historical and literary storms. While disagreeing on the definition of their place on the map of modern culture, Russian-Israeli writers are united by a shared bond with the fate of the Jewish state.
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