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Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book The Function of Criticism at the Present Time written by Matthew Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458705722
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Function of Criticism at the Present Time written by Matthew Arnold and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold believes that the ultimate function of humankind lies in exercising its creative powers. He delineates the function of criticism in this work saying that it filters the contents that will reach society. That a critic can judge the greatness of a literary piece has been asserted.
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold written by Matthew Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Berlant
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389169
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Female Complaint written by Lauren Berlant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory. As Berlant explains, “women’s” books, films, and television shows enact a fantasy that a woman’s life is not just her own, but an experience understood by other women, no matter how dissimilar they are. The commodified genres of intimacy, such as “chick lit,” circulate among strangers, enabling insider self-help talk to flourish in an intimate public. Sentimentality and complaint are central to this commercial convention of critique; their relation to the political realm is ambivalent, as politics seems both to threaten sentimental values and to provide certain opportunities for their extension. Pairing literary criticism and historical analysis, Berlant explores the territory of this intimate public sphere through close readings of U.S. women’s literary works and their stage and film adaptations. Her interpretation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its literary descendants reaches from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, touching on Shirley Temple, James Baldwin, and The Bridges of Madison County along the way. Berlant illuminates different permutations of the women’s intimate public through her readings of Edna Ferber’s Show Boat; Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life; Olive Higgins Prouty’s feminist melodrama Now, Voyager; Dorothy Parker’s poetry, prose, and Academy Award–winning screenplay for A Star Is Born; the Fay Weldon novel and Roseanne Barr film The Life and Loves of a She-Devil; and the queer, avant-garde film Showboat 1988–The Remake. The Female Complaint is a major contribution from a leading Americanist.
Author : Matthew Arnold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book God and the Bible written by Matthew Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674961876
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The World, the Text, and the Critic written by Edward W. Said and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.
Author : A. O. Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109979
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Better Living Through Criticism written by A. O. Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics--himself included--can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative, and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point--everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille--Scott expands outward, easily guiding readers through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn.' Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive. "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253200884
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Educated Imagination written by Northrop Frye and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1964-01-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and experience found in the study of literature.
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold written by Matthew Arnold and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1913 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736811152
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Culture and Anarchy written by Matthew Arnold and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441151893
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Criticism and Truth written by Roland Barthes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605318
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Function of Criticism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this fragile culture brought on a crisis in criticism, whose history since the 18th century has been fraught with ambivalence and anxiety. Eagleton's account embraces Addison and Steele, Johnson and the 19-century reviewers, such critics as Arnold and Stephen, the heyday of Scrutiny and New Criticism, and finally the proliferation of avant-garde literary theories such as deconstructionism. The Function of Criticism is nothing less than a history and critique of the "critical institution" itself. Eagleton's judgements on individual critics are sharp and illuminating, which his general argument raises crucial questions about the relations between language, literature and politics.
Author : Joseph North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967739
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Joseph North and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Critical Revolution Turns Right -- 2. The Scholarly Turn -- 3. The Historicist/Contextualist Paradigm -- 4. The Critical Unconscious -- Conclusion: The Future of Criticism -- Appendix: The Critical Paradigm and T.S. Eliot -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Author : Helen Small
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198861931
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time written by Helen Small and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern that it can now only be corrosively negative. The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time takes a more balanced view. Re-evaluating the role of cynicism in literature, cultural criticism, and philosophy from 1840 to the present, it treats cynic confrontationalism as a widely-employed credibility-check on the promotion of moral ideals--with roots in human psychology. Helen Small investigates how writers have engaged with Cynic traditions of thought, and later more gestural styles of cynicism, to re-calibrate dominant moral values, judgements of taste, and political agreements. The argument develops through a series of cynic challenges to accepted moral thinking: Friedrich Nietzsche on morality; Thomas Carlyle v. J. S. Mill on the permissible limits of moral provocation; Arnold on the freedom of criticism; George Eliot and Ford Madox Ford on cosmopolitanism; Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and Laura Kipnis on the conditions of work in the university. The Function of Cynicism treats topics of present-day public concern: abrasive styles of public argument; debasing challenges to conventional morality; free speech, moral controversialism; the authority of reason and the limits of that authority; nationalism and resistance to nationalism; and liberty of expression as a core principle of the university.
Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393322572
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472116539
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Lectures and Essays in Criticism written by Matthew Arnold and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of Arnold's high reputation as literary critic
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141187099
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Anatomy of Criticism written by Northrop Frye and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
