Download or read book The New Criticism written by John Crowe Ransom and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the New Criticism to Deconstruction written by Art Berman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New Criticism to Deconstruction traces the transitions in American critical theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s. It focuses on the influence of French structuralism and post-structuralism on American deconstruction within a wide-ranging context that includes literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, technology, and politics.
Download or read book A Companion to Literary Theory written by David H. Richter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged by topic rather than chronology, in order to highlight the relationships between earlier and most recent theoretical developments, the book groups its chapters into seven convenient sections: I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; II. The Task of Reading; III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; IV. The Politics of Literature; V. Identities; VI. Bodies and Their Minds; and VII. Scientific Inflections. Allotting proper space to all areas of theory most relevant today, this comprehensive volume features three dozen masterfully written chapters covering such subjects as: Anglo-American New Criticism; Chicago Formalism; Russian Formalism; Derrida and Deconstruction; Empathy/Affect Studies; Foucault and Poststructuralism; Marx and Marxist Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Ethnic Studies; Gender Theory; Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism; Cognitive Literary Theory; Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cybernetics and Posthumanism; and much more. Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the field Fills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologies Presents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the past The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory will be welcomed by college and university students seeking an accessible and authoritative guide to the complex and often intimidating modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century.
Download or read book After the New Criticism written by Frank Lentricchia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, Poulet, Heidegger, Sussure, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault, among other, less central figures. In a second part, Lentricchia turns to four exemplary theorists on the American scene—Murray Krieger, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom—and an analysis of their careers within the lineage established in part one. Lentricchia's critical intention is in evidence in his sustained attack on the more or less hidden formalist premises inherited from the New Critical fathers. Even in the name of historical consciousness, he contends, contemporary theorists have often cut literature off from social and temporal processes. By so doing he believes that they have deprived literature of its relevant values and turned the teaching of both literature and theory into a rarefied activity. All along the way, with the help of such diverse thinkers as Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Bloom, Lentricchia indicates a strategy by which future critical theorists may resist the mandarin attitudes of their fathers.
Download or read book Literacy Leader Fellowship Program Reports no 1 Learning to think learning to learn what the science of thinking and learning has to offer adult education written by Eunice Nicholson Askov and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The net of Hephaestus A study of modern criticism and metaphysical metaphor written by David M. Miller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The net of Hephaestus. A study of modern criticism and metaphysical metaphor".
Download or read book Anatomy of Criticism written by Northrop Frye and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Criticism written by Alfred J. Drake and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism school of the 1920s–1950s in America. Contributors trace the history of the New Criticism as a movement, consider theoretical and practical aspects of various proponents, and assess the record of subsequent engagement with its tenets. The volume will prove valuable for its renewed concentration not only on the New Critics themselves, but also on the way they and their work have been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by theorists and educators during and after their period of greatest influence, both in the United States and abroad.
Download or read book The Age of Analogy written by Devin Griffiths and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did literature shape nineteenth-century science? Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins’ writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study of antiquity, or “comparative historicism,” that emerged outside of traditional histories. It flourished instead in literary forms like the realist novel and the elegy, as well as in natural histories that explored the continuity between past and present forms of life. Nurtured by imaginative cross-disciplinary descriptions of the past—from the historical fiction of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot to the poetry of Alfred Tennyson—this novel understanding of history fashioned new theories of natural transformation, encouraged a fresh investment in social history, and explained our intuition that environment shapes daily life. Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence and contemporary models of scientific and literary networks, The Age of Analogy explores the critical role analogies play within historical and scientific thinking. Griffiths also presents readers with a new theory of analogy that emphasizes language's power to foster insight into nature and human society. The first comparative treatment of the Darwins’ theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science.
Download or read book The Old Testament and the New Criticism written by Alfred Blomfield and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Criticism in Theory and Practice microform Views of John Crowe Ransom Cleanth Brooks and William Empson written by Stojanoviʹc, Dǔsan T and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately every ten years a new generation of scholars and critics challenges the "truth" about Anglo-American New Criticism. Both the theoretical and the historical aspects of the movement are examined from a new perspective, but re-evaluations usually do not go too far because of the critics' disregard for the natural discrepancies and contradictions between the New Critics' theory and practice, as well as in the writings of the previous interpretators. It seems to be a rather fruitless, and totally uninspiring task to establish the "real truth" about New Criticism, or to ask new questions about the discoveries of previous scholarship about the New Critics such as their contextualism (Krieger), Neo-Romanticism (Foster), Organicism (Wellek), Kantianism (Handy), closeness to Russian Formalism (Ewa Thompson), or more recently, the influence and the reflection of dogma and politics in the New Critics' writings (Graff). Many have already concluded that the New Critics represent a group of individuals who defy any standard and firm definition. They share a very similar literary taste, but have totally different ideas as to what their task is, and how it should be carried out. However, this simple truth has not made the scholars' job much easier. On the contrary, many have gone in the wrong direction, trying to reconcile the contradictions, or to find non-existent similarities. The paradoxical nature of the New Criticism does not require classification, it requires verification. Flooded with different interpretations, the traditional academic textbooks inherit too many of the legendary misconceptions and conclusions of the past. For instance, the traditional definition of New Criticism is based on the following (sometimes twofold) concepts: critical monism and critical relativism; or critical subjectivism and the return to critical aestheticism and Neo-Kantianism; critical organicism or interpretative form of structuralism, and so on. However, all these concepts need reevaluation for two main reasons. First of all, in spite of many consciously formulated concepts such as literature as knowledge; the form is the meaning; the poetic structure exists as the parts and as the whole; the New Critical theory has been influenced by the New Critics' analytical concepts as well (i.e. by concepts such as metaphor, symbol, irony, paradox, types of ambiguity, etc.). This practically means that in the case of critical monism, for instance, we can say that it is indeed true that the New Criticism seeks to find and develop a unique method for interpreting literature, but to achieve this goal needs to establish a variety of definitions of poem and poetry, which will become a main reason for discrepancies and contra¬ dictions in their thought. Secondly, traditional criticism usually fails to fully recognize the real nature of New Criticism because of its overly serious and presumptuous treatment of everything that the New Critics have said about themselves and their theories. The unique¬ ness of the New Criticism lies in the fact that this was the only modern critical movement which tried to combine and reconcile the two opposing schools of criticism, the intrinsic or textual criticism with the extrinsic or interpretative criticism, using the two opposing phil¬ osophical theories: literature as an aesthetic and autonomous object, and literature as a supreme knowledge. In addition to this, somehow the scholars have forgotten that most New Critics were creative writers and poets. Thus, the New Critical understanding of an interpretation as provocation can have its legitimate value in spite of its basically non-academic motivations or conclusions.
Download or read book Seven Types of Ambiguity written by William Empson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.
Download or read book The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory written by William J. Spurlin and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criticism and Truth written by Roland Barthes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.
Download or read book Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of metaphor. This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning.
Download or read book Russian Formalism and Anglo American New Criticism written by Ewa Majewska Thompson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Theory Today written by Lois Tyson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
