Download or read book In the Age of Prose written by Erich Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.

Download or read book The Victorian Age in Prose written by Alan W. Bellringer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Romantic Age in Prose written by Alan W. Bellringer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book What to Read and Why written by Francine Prose and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño. In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. Inspiring and illuminating, What to Read and Why includes selections culled from Prose’s previous essays, reviews, and introductions, combined with new, never-before-published pieces that focus on her favorite works of fiction and nonfiction, on works by masters of the short story, and even on books by photographers like Diane Arbus. Prose considers why the works of literary masters such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Jane Austen have endured, and shares intriguing insights about modern authors whose words stimulate our minds and enlarge our lives, including Roberto Bolaño, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jennifer Egan, and Mohsin Hamid. Prose implores us to read Mavis Gallant for her marvelously rich and compact sentences, and her meticulously rendered characters who reveal our flawed and complex human nature; Edward St. Aubyn for his elegance and sophisticated humor; and Mark Strand for his gift for depicting unlikely transformations. Here, too, are original pieces in which Prose explores the craft of writing: "On Clarity" and "What Makes a Short Story." Written with her sharp critical analysis, wit, and enthusiasm, What to Read and Why is a celebration of literature that will give readers a new appreciation for the power and beauty of the written word.

Download or read book The Golden Age Prose and Poetry written by Royston Oscar Jones and published by London : Benn ; New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1971 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Age of the Poets written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

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Download or read book The Beauties of Modern Literature in Verse and Prose written by Martin MacDermot and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preliminary view is chiefly a comparison of classical and romantic poetry.

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Download or read book Prose in the Age of Poets written by Annette Wheeler Cafarelli and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography—especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory.

Download or read book Prose of the Victorian Period written by William Earl Buckler and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An established series of classic American, British, and continental literature distinguished by its textual purity and authoritative editorial material." -Publisher.

Download or read book The Beauties of Modern Literature in Verse and Prose written by Martin Macdermot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beauties of Modern Literature, in Verse and Prose: To Which Is Prefixed, a Preliminary View of the Literature of the Age Pleasure dmnd from 15610 represen?ations; from which is deduced the Secret of giving Dramatic Interest to Tragedie intended for the Stage. Precededbyacritlenl Mutational thovcrioul eerie-adopts! mammal-mm. Pm. And 0m Mailman. Hm nnltorxnwlththeabove. Malawian-ran. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Concise History of English Literature written by William Long and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Summary:(1) A brief, accurate summary of historical events and social conditions in each period, and a consideration of the ideals which stirred the whole nation, as in the days of Elizabeth, before they found expression in literature.(2) A study of the various literary epochs in turn, showing what each gained from the epoch preceding, and how each aided in the development of a national literature.(3) A readable biography of every important writer, showing how he lived and worked, how he met success or failure, how he influenced his age, and how his age influenced him.(4) A study and analysis of every author's best works, and of many of the books required for college-entrance examinations.(5) Selections enough-especially from earlier writers, and from writers not likely to be found in the home or school library-to indicate the spirit of each author's work; and directions as to the best works to read, and where such works may be found in inexpensive editions.(6) A frank, non-technical discussion of each great writer's work as a whole, and a critical estimate of his relative place and influence in our literature.(7) A few review questions for essays or discussion.(8) Throughout this book we have sought to encourage the student to read widely for herself, to choose the best books, and to form her own judgment about what the first Anglo-Saxon writers called "the things worthy to be remembered."Chapter Contents:A Concise History of English LiteraturePreface1 The Meaning Of Literature2 The Old-English PeriodThe First PoetryAnglo-Saxon LifeChristian Writers Of The Anglo-Saxon Period3 The Anglo-Norman Period Historical IntroductionLiterature Of The Norman Period4 The Age Of ChaucerChaucer's Contemporaries5 The Revival Of LearningHistory Of The PeriodLiterature Of The Revival6 The Elizabethan AgeHistory Of The PeriodThe Non-Dramatic PoetsThe First English DramatistsPeriods In The Development Of The DramaShakespeareContemporaries and SuccessorsThe Prose Writers7 The Puritan AgeHistorical SummaryLiterature Of The Puritan PeriodProse Writers Of The Puritan Period8 The RestorationThe Age Of French Influence9 Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThe Augustan AgeThe Revival Of Romantic PoetryThe First English Novelists10 The Age Of RomanticismThe Poets Of RomanticismProse Writers Of The Romantic Period11 The Victorian Age The Poets Of The Victorian AgeMinor Poets Of The Victorian AgeThe Novelists Of The Victorian AgeEssayists Of The Victorian Age12 Summary of English LiteratureContents in detail for one chapter:6 The Elizabethan AgeHistory Of The PeriodPolitical SummaryCharacteristics Of The Elizabethan AgeThe Non-Dramatic PoetsEdmund SpenserLife Of SpenserSpenser's WorksArgument Of The Faery QueenPoetical FormMinor PoemsImportance Of The Shepherd's CalendarCharacteristics Of Spenser's PoetryComparison Between Chaucer And SpenserMinor PoetsThomas Sackville George ChapmanMichael DraytonThe First English DramatistsThe Origin Of The DramaPeriods In The Development Of The DramaThe Religious Period The Moral Period Of The DramaThe Artistic Period Of The DramaClassical Influence Upon The DramaShakespeare's Predecessors In DramaChristopher MarloweMarlowe's WorksVariety Of Early DramaShakespeareLife Of ShakespeareWorks Of ShakespeareClassification According To SourceClassification According To Dramatic TypeDoubtful PlaysShakespeare's PoemsShakespeare's Place And InfluenceContemporaries and SuccessorsDecline Of The DramaBen JonsonLife Of Ben JonsonWorks Of Ben JonsonBeaumont And FletcherJohn WebsterThomas MiddletonThomas HeywoodThomas DekkerMassinger, Ford, ShirleyThe Prose WritersFrancis BaconLife Of BaconWorks Of BaconThe Instauratio MagnaThe EssaysMiscellaneous WorksBacon's Place And WorkRichard HookerSidney And RaleighJohn FoxeCamden And KnoxHakluyt And PurchasThomas NorthSummary Of The Age Of ElizabethQuestions