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Author : Richard Harland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes written by Richard Harland and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raman Selden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317902300
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Criticism written by Raman Selden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.
Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226472094
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Critical Terms for Literary Study written by Frank Lentricchia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits. Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.
Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135053022
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism and Theory written by Pelagia Goulimari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809083752
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book S/Z. written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."
Author : Seán Burke
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Authorship written by Seán Burke and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader provides the textual material for students encountering the authorship debate for the first time. It outlines the issues, explains central theoretical positions, and summarizes the history and possible future directions of the debate. Key writings on authorship are presented.
Author : Mary Bittner Wiseman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134971761
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes written by Mary Bittner Wiseman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time. With her insistent pushing against the boundaries of our standard academic assumptions, Mary Bittner Wiseman succeeds in interpreting Barthes’s effort to join the traditional and the new. This title will be of interest to students of literature and philosophy.
Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405148845
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A History of Literary Criticism written by M. A. R. Habib and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction
Author : Ole Martin Skilleås
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Philosophy and Literature written by Ole Martin Skilleås and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The main aspects of the field of philosophy and literature are outlined, and we see the reasons why Plato divided philosophy and literature and banished literature from his ideal state, and how Aristotle answered Plato's criticism of literature. The philosophical characteristic of wanting to define phenomena takes us into different ways of defining literature. This book also investigates the nature of interpretation and its sources of authority, how literary forms can be read as vehicles for the development of philosophical problems, and how different philosophical forms can be analysed as using typically literary means in order to persuade readers. The question of whether it is warranted or useful to maintain the distinction between philosophy and literature is addressed."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Laura Seymour
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429818866
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author written by Laura Seymour and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text’s possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching reader response theory.
Author : Jonathan Culler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191577545
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Barthes: A Very Short Introduction written by Jonathan Culler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809098652
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Writing Degree Zero written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810105898
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays written by Roland Barthes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).
Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485326
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida written by Mark Edmundson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of thought which ignores the special character of literary art. Mark Edmundson traces the origins of this tendency to the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, in which Plato took the side of philosophy; and he shows how the work of modern theorists - Foucault, Derrida, de Man and Bloom - exhibits similar drives to subsume poetic art into some 'higher' kind of thought. Challenging and controversial, this book should be read by all teachers of literature and of theory, and by anyone concerned about the future of institutionalised literary studies.
Author : Michael Moriarty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680488
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Roland Barthes written by Michael Moriarty and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty argues that Barthes's writing must not be seen as an unchanging body of thought, and that we should study his ideas in the contexts within which they were formulated, debated and developed.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780485121445
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Criticism and Truth written by Roland Barthes and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1987 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this English translation of the 1966 text, Dr Keuneman has provided a full range of notes on the issues and people alluded to in Barthes's text.
Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Literature and the Question of Philosophy written by Anthony J. Cascardi and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished group of authors reflects on problems currently enlivening the space shared by philosophy and literary theory in a series of chapters that range in scope from Plato to postmodernism.
