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Literary Criticism

Author : Charles E. Bressler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Charles E. Bressler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler is designed to help readers make conscious, informed, and intelligent choices concerning literary interpretation. By explaining the historical development and theoretical positions of eleven schools of criticism, author Charles Bressler reveals the richness of literary texts along with the various interpretative approaches that will lead to a fuller appreciation and understanding of such texts.

Literary Theory: The Basics

Author : Hans Bertens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040039693
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory: The Basics written by Hans Bertens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism. Literary Theory: The Basics shows, in an always lucid and accessible style, how literary theory and practice are connected, and considers key theories and approaches including: humanist criticism; structuralist and poststructuralist theory; postcolonial theory; posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; digital humanities and print culture studies. Literary theory has much to say about the wider world of humanities and beyond, and this guide helps readers to approach the many theories and debates with confidence. Expanded with updates throughout, this is the go-to guide for understanding literary theory today.

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics

Author : Averroës
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics written by Averroës and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Poetics has held the attention of scholars and authors through the ages, and Averroes has long been known as "the commentator" on Aristotle. His Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics is important because of its striking content. Here, an author steeped in Aristotle's thought and highly familiar with an entirely different poetical tradition shows in careful detail what is commendable about Greek poetics and commendable as well as blameworthy about Arabic poetics.

Introducing Literary Criticism

Author : Owen Holland
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848319053
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Literary Criticism written by Owen Holland and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated guide will help readers of all levels to get more out of their reading.

Textual and Literary Criticism

Author : Fredson Bowers
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521094078
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Textual and Literary Criticism written by Fredson Bowers and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1966-01-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them.

Literary Criticism

Author : Joseph North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967739
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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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

Literary Theory and Criticism

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144674
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential anthology of Poe's critical works reviews works by Dickens, Hawthorne, many others. Includes Theory of Poetry ("The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," "The Poetic Principle"). Introduction.

Literary Criticism

Author : William Kurtz Wimsatt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780710068521
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism written by William Kurtz Wimsatt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1970 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Criticism and Theory

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135053014
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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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 437 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.

Literary Criticism

Author : Mark Bauerlein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203879
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Mark Bauerlein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as substitutes for information and logic. Thus by labeling a set of ideas an "ideology" they avoid specifying those ideas, or by saying that someone "essentializes" a concept they convey the air of decisive refutation. As long as a paper is generously sprinkled with the right words, clarification is deemed superfluous. Bauerlein contends that such usages only serve to signal political commitments, prove membership in subgroups, or appeal to editors and tenure committees, and that current textual practices are inadequate to the study of culture and politics they presume to undertake. His book discusses 23 commonly encountered terms—from "deconstruction" and "gender" to "problematize" and "rethink"—and offers a diagnosis of contemporary criticism through their analysis. He examines the motives behind their usage and the circumstances under which they arose and tells why they continue to flourish. A self-styled "handbook of counterdisciplinary usage," Literary Criticism: An Autopsy shows how the use of illogical, unsound, or inconsistent terms has brought about a breakdown in disciplinary focus. It is an insightful and entertaining work that challenges scholars to reconsider their choice of words—and to eliminate many from critical inquiry altogether.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Author : Steven J. Venturino, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1615643273
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism written by Steven J. Venturino, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single theory, critic, or issue, accompanied by concrete examples for applying the concepts and engaging suggestions for related literary readings. Following a section on the foundations of literary theory, the book is organized thematically, with an eye to the best way to develop a real, working understanding of the various theories. Cross-references are particularly important, since it's through the interaction of examples that readers most effectively advance from basic topics and arguments to some of the more specialized and complicated issues. Each chapter is designed to tell a complete story, yet also to reach out to other chapters for development and debate. Literary theorists are hardly unified in their views, and this book reflects the various traditions, agreements, influences, and squabbles that are a part of the field. Special features include hundreds of references to and quotations from novels, stories, plays, poems, movies, and other media. Online resources could also include video and music clips, as well as high-quality examples of visual art mentioned in the book. The book also includes periodic "running" references to selected key titles (such as Frankenstein) in order to illustrate the effect of different theories on a single work.

Historical Studies and Literary Criticism

Author : Jerome J. McGann
Publisher : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Historical Studies and Literary Criticism written by Jerome J. McGann and published by Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifty years literary studies and criticism have been dominated by formalist, structural and text-centered approaches. The editor of this volume, Jerome J. McGann, has been arguing in recent years for more expansive and contextual procedures. In this collection of essays he has brought together a group of distinguished collaborators--including Terry Eagleton, Marilyn Butler, Cecil Lang, and Sandra Gilbert--whose work emphasizes the importance of social and historical methodologies for the study of literary texts. Representing a variety of viewpoints and critical strategies, these critics together demonstrate the sociohistorical dimensions of literary works, provide examples of how studies of such literary works might be pursued, and suggest some central areas of investigation. The resulting effort to reconstitute some vital and neglected critical approaches will engage students and scholars of literature, and move them to reassess current critical assumptions. Fundamental to this collection is the sense that literary texts are more than self-enclosed verbal constructs. In his introduction to the essays, editor McGann examines how and why the concept of referentiality fell into disfavor with modern literary schools. The antihistorical bias of the New Critics, Structuralists, and Deconstructionists, he argues, ultimately limit their critical vision. For literature, McGann stresses, has various points of reference to a larger world of social interactions and historical influence; only by recognizing and reconstructing that world can we mine the full meaning, and communicative potential, of a fictional work.

Marxism and Literary Criticism

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520032439
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Marxism and Literary Criticism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-08-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian

Grounds of Literary Criticism

Author : Suresh Raval
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067112
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Grounds of Literary Criticism written by Suresh Raval and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated and wide-ranging look at literary criticism addresses the major theorists of today and proposes a constructive approach to challenging critical debates. Disclosing conflict as the inevitable outcome of historical change, Suresh Raval refuses the stark either-or choice between the foundationalist stance, which seeks to find the right answers, and the relativist position, which denies the possibility of identifying right and wrong. Raval explores the question of conflict in literary criticism and theory by analyzing how different theories have treated key issues, not to resolve these problems but to show why they resist decisive solution.

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present

Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351567
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present written by M. A. R. Habib and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory Introduces the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism Provides historical context and shows the interconnections between various theories An ideal text for all students of literature and criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414472942
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literary Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Literary Criticism

Author : W. K. Wimsatt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520329449
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism written by W. K. Wimsatt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.