The Use and Abuse of Literary Criticism
Author | : Harold Fletcher Brooks |
Publisher | : Birkbeck |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harold Fletcher Brooks |
Publisher | : Birkbeck |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marjorie Garber |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307277127 |
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking. But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one’s worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its “commercial” instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study—and what would that mean?
Author | : Howard Felperin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198128960 |
This book offers an account of the swiftly developing discipline of contemporary literary theory, and of its consequences for future literary study.
Author | : Joseph North |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674967739 |
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
Author | : Guyora Binder |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2000-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400823633 |
In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical fictions, represent persons before the law, move audiences with artful rhetoric, and invent new legal forms and concepts. Binder and Weisberg explain the literary theories and methods increasingly applied to law, and they introduce and synthesize the work of over a hundred authors in the fields of law, literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. Drawing on these disparate bodies of scholarship, Binder and Weisberg analyze law as interpretation, narration, rhetoric, language, and culture, placing each of these approaches within the history of literary and legal thought. They sort the styles of analysis most likely to sharpen critical understanding from those that risk self-indulgent sentimentalism or sterile skepticism, and they endorse a broadly synthetic cultural criticism that views law as an arena for composing and contesting identity, status, and character. Such a cultural criticism would evaluate law not simply as a device for realizing rights and interests but also as the framework for a vibrant cultural life.
Author | : John M. Ellis |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520318889 |
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.