Criticism And Fiction
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Author | : Martin Paul Eve |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783742763 |
This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : James Wood |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008-07-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780374173401 |
What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings—Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780486401553 |
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.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1986-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226391973 |
A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--P. [4] of cover.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : New York, Harper |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : William Dean William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2018-02-21 |
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ISBN | : 9781985753815 |
William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria.
Author | : Patrick Parrinder |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1317872657 |
First published in 1979. This volume presents Science Fiction as a coherent system, not as a collection of facts or random sequence of individual voices. The contributors are concerned with less with surveying the bare facts of the genre than with interpretating their significance. They attempt to establish the common properties of Science Fiction writing whether in the treatment of a theme or in SF of a given period or nationality.
Author | : George Alexander Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521300124 |
The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.
Author | : Daniel Mendelsohn |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1681374056 |
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.