The English University Novel
Author | : Mortimer Robinson Proctor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
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Author | : Mortimer Robinson Proctor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
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Author | : Janet M. Atwill |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education, Humanistic |
ISBN | : 9780801476051 |
Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotle's Rhetoric. This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techn , or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the fifth century B.C.E. Atwill examines these traditions, together with sophistic and platonic conceptions, and considers the commentaries on Aristotle's Rhetoric by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techn and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity, Atwill's examination of techn also explores the role of political, economic, and educational institutions in standardizing a specific model for subjectivity. She argues that the liberal arts traditions largely eclipsed the social and political functions of rhetoric, transforming it from an art of disrupting and reinventing lines of power to a discipline of producing a normative subject, defined by virtue but modeled on a specific gender and class type.
Author | : Rachael Gilmour |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1784991791 |
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
Author | : Mortimer Robinson Proctor |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
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ISBN | : 9780598146106 |
Author | : Amanda Claybaugh |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801444807 |
Social reform and the new transatlanticism -- The novel of purpose and Anglo-American realism -- Charles Dickens : a reformer abroad and at home -- Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Stoddard : temperance pledges, marriage vows -- George Eliot and Henry James : exemplary women and typical Americans -- Mark Twain : reformers and other con artists -- Thomas Hardy : new women, old purposes.
Author | : Priya Joshi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231125844 |
Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, In Another Country shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. She further demonstrates how Indian novelists writing in English, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.
Author | : Patrick Parrinder |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199264856 |
Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.
Author | : Marcie Frank |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684481694 |
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined narrative contributions of such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald, alongside those of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen, The Novel Stage tells the story of the novel as it was shaped by the stage. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author | : Daniel Born |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
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Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells
Author | : Robert L. Caserio |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828339 |
The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.