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Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Dramatic Poetry written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dryden
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book An Essay of Dramatic Poesy written by John Dryden and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1889 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980852349
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Braiding the Voices written by Peter Steele and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Braiding the Voices, Peter Steele brings to bear a lifetime of reading, writing, and teaching prose and poetry. With gusto and focus, these essays concert poets and poems of different tempers and aspirations. They are by Gwen Harwood, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Vincent Buckley and, further afield, Fleur Adcock, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Deborah Randall, Ben Belitt, Norman MacCaig, R.S. Thomas, P.J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The writing of some of his own poems is also addressed. Characteristically, Steele refers copiously also to much else. The book investigates some of the ways in which individual poets have found what they most wanted to say, and how their art takes its place in the general conversation of humanity itself. Applauding the dexterity and the variety with which this feat is carried off by the poets, Steele's distinctive prose is deliberately fashioned to be as hospitable to insight as possible.
Author : Lawrence Danson
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 9780198711728
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres written by Lawrence Danson and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. The history of the genres, or kinds, of drama is one of contradictory traditions and complex cultural assumptions. The divisions established by the original edition of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (the First Folio, 1623) give shape to whole curricula; but, as Lawrence Danson reminds us in this lively book, there is nothing inevitable, and much unsatisfying, about that tripartite scheme. Yet students of Shakespeare cannot avoid thinking about questions of genre; often they are the unspoken reason why classrooms full of smart people fail to agree on basic interpretative issues. Danson's guide to the kinds of Shakespearian drama provides an accessible account of genre-theory in Shakespeare's day, an overview of the genres on the Elizabethan stage, and a provocative look at the full range of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Author : Michael J. Sidnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521326940
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 1, Plato to Congreve written by Michael J. Sidnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks to the late seventeenth century for students of dramatic theory who require more than representative snippets. All the texts included here have been newly annotated and many have been specially translated for this volume.
Author : Victoria Moul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485792
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition written by Victoria Moul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of the Roman poet Horace on Ben Jonson has often been acknowledged, but never fully explored. Discussing Jonson's Horatianism in detail, this study also places Jonson's densely intertextual relationship with Horace's Latin text within the broader context of his complex negotiations with a range of other 'rivals' to the Horatian model including Pindar, Seneca, Juvenal and Martial. The new reading of Jonson's classicism that emerges is one founded not upon static imitation, but rather a lively dialogue between competing models - an allusive mode that extends into the seventeenth-century reception of Jonson himself as a latter-day 'Horace'. In the course of this analysis, the book provides fresh readings of many of Jonson's best-known poems - including 'Inviting a Friend to Dinner' and 'To Penshurst' - as well as a new perspective on many lesser-known pieces, and a range of unpublished manuscript material.
Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317576675
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet written by Ranjan Ghosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of creativity that are rarely studied side by side. Ghosh carves out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. The book demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the relatively staid and historicist categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far, since they rarely dare stray beyond issues of influence and schools, or new 'world literature' approaches that affirm cosmopolitanism and transnationalism as overarching themes. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, this bold book introduces new methodologies of reading literature to configure the concept of the poet from Philip Sidney to T. S Eliot, reading the notion of the poet through completely new theoretical and epistemic triggers. Commonly known texts and sometimes well-circulated ideas are subjected to refreshing reading in what the author calls the ‘transcultural now’ and (in)fusionised transpoetical matrices. By moving between theories of poetry and literature that come from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.
Author : Jonathan Brody Kramnick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521641276
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Making the English Canon written by Jonathan Brody Kramnick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Brody Kramnick's book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details how the idea of literary tradition emerged out of a prolonged engagement with the institutions of cultural modernity, from the public sphere and national identity to capitalism and the print market. Looking at a wide variety of eighteenth-century critical writing, he analyses the tensions that inhabited the categories of national literature and public culture at the moment of their emergence.
Author : James Engell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674309432
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Forming the Critical Mind written by James Engell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engell shows that 18th-century criticism cannot be represented by just a few major critics or by generalizations about Augustan taste, neoclassical rules, or "common sense." He presents a complex and highly varied body of theoretical writing and practical application by dozens of critics.
Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113503365X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Poetry as Discourse written by Antony Easthope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This study presents insights into poetry as discourse ooking at language, conventual literary theory, and then a detailed look at the iambic pentameter, ballads in English Poetry, looking at Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. Also included is commentary on transparency looking at Pope's The Rape of the Lock, and Romanticism in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads and Wordworth's Tintern Abbey. Before ending on the future of poetry there is also a section on the Modernism of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Author : A. R. Braunmuller
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134049
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Natural Fictions written by A. R. Braunmuller and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Fictions is a theatrical and historical study of the principal tragedies written by George Chapman during the first decade of King James I's reign in England. Each chapter considers the theatrical and literary qualities of the respective plays and examines the historical sources used by Chapman.
Author : John Sitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502468
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry written by John Sitter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.
Author : Katherine Romack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195296X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections written by Katherine Romack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of William Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Cavendish wrote 25 plays in the 1650s and 60s, making her one of the most prolific playwrights”man or woman”of the seventeenth century. The essays contained in this volume fit together as studies of various sorts of influence, both literary and historical, setting Cavendish's appropriation of Shakespearean characters and plot structures within the context of the English Civil Wars and the Fronde. The essays trace Shakespeare's influence on Cavendish, explore the political implications of Cavendish's contribution to Shakespeare's reputation, and investigate the politics of influence more generally. The collection covers topics ranging from Cavendish's strategic use of Shakespeare to establish her own reputation to her adaptation of Shakespeare's martial imagery, moral philosophy, and marriage plots, as well as the conventions of cross dressing on stage. Other topics include Shakespeare and Cavendish read aloud; Cavendish's formally hybrid appropriation of Shakespearean comedy and tragedy; her transformation of Shakespearean women on trial; and her re-imagining of Shakespearean models of sexuality and pleasure.
Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope written by Pat Rogers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age.
Author : Jean I. Marsden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185556
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Re-Imagined Text written by Jean I. Marsden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history—the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays. Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's "audacious" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused—a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.
Author : Milind S. Malshe
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171548590
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics of Literary Classification written by Milind S. Malshe and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Attempts To Clarify The Concept Of Literary Classification, First Within The Larger Framework Of Aesthetic Classification And Then With Reference To Literary Theories.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041230
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Sir John Vanbrugh: The Playwright as Architect written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
