The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia Of Modern Criticism And Theory
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Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
A guide to the history and development of modern criticism in the humanities. The work takes the reader through introductions to historically influential philosophers, literary critics, schools of thought and movements from Spinoza and Descartes to phenomenology and Heidegger, before turning to its three principal areas or critical attention: Europe, North America and Great Britain.
Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9780748672554 |
A single volume guide to the history and development of modern criticism in the humanities.
Author | : Andrew Bennett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131786431X |
Fresh, original and compelling, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘the beginning’ and concluding with ‘the end’, the book covers topics that range from the familiar (character, narrative, the author) to the more unusual (secrets, pleasure, ghosts). Eschewing abstract isms, Bennett and Royle successfully illuminate complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works – so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, whilst Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a discussion of literary laughter. Each chapter ends with a narrative guide to further reading and the book also includes a glossary and bibliography. The fourth edition has been revised to incorporate two timely new chapters on animals and the environment. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of both reading and studying literature.
Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748626794 |
Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural studies from the Enlightenment to the present day. Examining how conceptions of subjectivity, identity and gender have been questioned, the more than 50 essays written by acknowledged experts in their fields critically assess the ways in which we think, see, and act in the world, as well as the ways in which we represent such thought psychologically, politically, and culturally. A further reading list accompanies each chapter.
Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2006-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748626786 |
Modern North American Criticism and Theory presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, with particular essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, the book offers a narrative of change, transformation, and the continuous quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities. From semiotics and the New Criticism to the identity politics of whiteness studies and the cultural study of masculinity, this book provides an overview of literary and cultural study in North America as a history of questioning, debate, and exploration.
Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2006-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748626808 |
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the book addresses in detailed, accessible and rigorous essays the rise and significance of literary and cultural studies. Nearly thirty essays contribute to an understanding of the practice of literary studies presenting the reader with a perceptive series of critical interventions which, themselves, engage in the very locations from which criticism and theory have emerged.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.
Author | : A. Timár |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137531460 |
A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.
Author | : Raman Selden |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-12-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317422813 |
A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough, logical approach, guiding the reader through the essentials of literary theory. It includes two new chapters: ‘New Materialisms’ which incorporates ecocriticism, animal studies, posthumanism and thing theory; ‘21st Century and Future Developments’ which includes technology, digital humanities, ethics and affect.
Author | : Dominic Head |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847795862 |
In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction. McEwan’s novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an economical stylist: McEwan’s readers are called upon to attend, not just to the grand themes, but also to the precision of his spare writing. Although McEwan’s later works are more overtly political, more humane, and more ostentatiously literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan’s prominence - pre-eminence, even - in the canon of contemporary British novelists.
Author | : J. Wolfreys |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007-07-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230591949 |
This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .