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Author | : Susan Manning |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107042402 |
A study of literary character in a comparative context, offering a wide-ranging approach to transatlantic literature in history.
Author | : Tom Jenks |
Publisher | : Narrative Library |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780985180751 |
Author | : Walter Watson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226875083 |
Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics".
Author | : Adele Berlin |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781575060026 |
Poetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.
Author | : Ernest Fenollosa |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0823228703 |
First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound’s understanding—it is fair to say, his appropriation—of the text. Fenollosa’s manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North America and East Asia. Pound’s editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa’s encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa’s important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound’s deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa’s sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa’s ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781544217574 |
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."
Author | : Susan Manning |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107659914 |
This study of character in a comparative context presents a new approach to transatlantic literary history. Rereading Romanticism across national, generic and chronological boundaries, and through close textual comparisons, it offers exciting possibilities for rediscovering how literature engages and persuades readers of the reality of character. Historically grounded in the eighteenth-century philosophical, political and cultural conditions that generated nation-based literary history, it reveals alternative narratives to those of origin and succession, influence and reception. It also reintroduces rhetoric and poetics as ways of addressing questions about uniqueness and representativeness in character creation, epistemological issues of identity and impersonation, and the generation of literary value. Drawing comparisons between works from Alexander Pope and Cotton Mather through Robert Burns, Jane Austen, John Keats, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, R. W. Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Herman Melville, to George Eliot and Henry James, Susan Manning reveals surprising metaphorical, metonymic and performative connections.
Author | : Susan Manning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781107326354 |
A study of literary character in a comparative context, offering a wide-ranging approach to transatlantic literature in history.
Author | : James J. Paxson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1994-02-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521445396 |
Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of poststructuralist thought and theory. The poetics of personification provides a historical reassessment of early theories, together with a sustained account of how literary personification works through an examination of narratological and semiotic codes and structures in the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser. The device turns out to be anything but an aberration, oddity or barbarism, from ancient, medieval or early modern literature. Rather, it works as a complex artistic tool for revealing and advertising the problems and limits inherent in narration in particular and poetic or verbal creation in general.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : |