Author: Sam Francis Batdorf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Personal Element in Literary Criticism
Author: Sam Francis Batdorf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Personal Bias in Literary Criticism
Author: Nagendra Prasad
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176253123
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Study on the works of Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, Mattew Arnold, 1822-1888 and T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, English litterateurs.
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176253123
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Study on the works of Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, Mattew Arnold, 1822-1888 and T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, English litterateurs.
Fiction Without Humanity
Author: Lynn Festa
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts. Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices— the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting— Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixed template, early Enlightenment writers and artists grounded humanity in the enactment of capacities (reason, speech, educability) that distinguish humans from other creatures, generating a performative model of humanity capacious enough to accommodate broader claims to human rights. In addressing genres typically excluded from canonical literary histories, Fiction Without Humanity offers an alternative account of the rise of the novel, showing how these early experiments with nonhuman perspectives helped generate novelistic techniques for the representation of consciousness. By placing the novel in a genealogy that embraces paintings, riddles, scientific plates, and fables, Festa shows realism to issue less from mimetic exactitude than from the tailoring of the represented world to a distinctively human point of view.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts. Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices— the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting— Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixed template, early Enlightenment writers and artists grounded humanity in the enactment of capacities (reason, speech, educability) that distinguish humans from other creatures, generating a performative model of humanity capacious enough to accommodate broader claims to human rights. In addressing genres typically excluded from canonical literary histories, Fiction Without Humanity offers an alternative account of the rise of the novel, showing how these early experiments with nonhuman perspectives helped generate novelistic techniques for the representation of consciousness. By placing the novel in a genealogy that embraces paintings, riddles, scientific plates, and fables, Festa shows realism to issue less from mimetic exactitude than from the tailoring of the represented world to a distinctively human point of view.
Theory of Literature
Author: Rene Wellek
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628972832
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628972832
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.
The Witching Hour
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307575950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series! “Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Moving through time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV’s France, and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel. The magic of the Mayfairs continues: THE WITCHING HOUR • LASHER • TALTOS
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307575950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series! “Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Moving through time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV’s France, and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel. The magic of the Mayfairs continues: THE WITCHING HOUR • LASHER • TALTOS
On Literary Worlds
Author: Eric Hayot
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199926697
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199926697
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Anatomy of Criticism
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141187099
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141187099
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Elements of Literary Criticism
Author: Charles Frederick Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Handbook of Literary Criticism
Author: William Henry Sheran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Key Terms in Literary Theory
Author: Mary Klages
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826442676
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826442676
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable.