The Function Of Criticism At The Present Time
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Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold
Author | : Matthew Arnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Function of Criticism at the Present Tim
Author | : Matthew Arnold |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1425022901 |
God & the Bible. A Review of Objections to Literature & Dogma
Author | : Matthew Arnold |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2024-03-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385374456 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Author | : Edward W. Said |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674961876 |
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.
The Female Complaint
Author | : Lauren Berlant |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822389169 |
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.
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (reprinted from "Essays in Criticism")and An Essay on Style, by Walter Pater (reprinted from "Appreciations").
Author | : Matthew Arnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Style, Literary |
ISBN | : |
Culture and Anarchy
Author | : Matthew Arnold |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3736811152 |
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.