G K Chesterton A Criticism

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G K Chesterton A Criticism

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Author : Cecil Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Release Date : 2017

G K Chesterton A Criticism written by Cecil Chesterton and has been published by Jazzybee Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.

Cecil Edward Chesterton was the brother of G.K. Chesterton, a journalist and political commentator throughout his short life of only 39 years. His biography of his better-known brother was first published anonymously, but it did not take long to discover the real author.

G K Chesterton A Criticism

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Author : Cecil Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-08-01

G K Chesterton A Criticism written by Cecil Chesterton and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with categories.

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G K C As M C

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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-11-01

G K C As M C written by G. K. Chesterton and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with Religion categories.

This collection of thirty-seven essays by G. K. Chesterton was first collected in 1929 and constitutes the cream of introductions and prefaces he had contributed by that date. Some of them, such as his startling essay on Job, are well known, but most of them have not seen the light of day since this volume drifted into obscurity. Some of these pieces are about people as well known as Matthew Arnold or Dr. Johnson, and the bulk of these are on literary figures; but others may veer on to such topics as Magna Carta or drinking songs. When Chesterton began writing for the Illustrated London News, his editors asked him not to write on religion or politics; he casually mentioned that there are no other subjects and quietly went about his business. These essays are like that. Each is fraught with one or the other topic--fraught because they are in danger of making us think.

G K Chesterton A Critical Study

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Author : Julius West
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-10

G K Chesterton A Critical Study written by Julius West and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-10 with Fiction categories.

Julius West's "G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study" discusses the individuality of one of the greatest English writers and provides an assessment of his work. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is known as the "prince of paradoxes." The book contains the following: The Romancer - The Maker of Magic - The Critic of Large Things - The Humorist and the Poet - The Religion of a Debater - The Politician who could not tell the Time - A Decadent of Sorts

The Complete Works Of G K Chesterton

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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-13

The Complete Works Of G K Chesterton written by G. K. Chesterton and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-13 with Fiction categories.

This edition includes: The Father Brown Stories: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown The Secret of Father Brown The Scandal of Father Brown The Donnington Affair The Mask of Midas Novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man who was Thursday The Ball and the Cross Manalive The Flying Inn The Return of Don Quixote Short Stories: The Club of Queer Trades The Man Who Knew Too Much The Trees of Pride Tales of the Long Bow The Poet and the Lunatics Four Faultless Felons The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond The White Pillars Murder The Sword of Wood Poetry: Greybeards At Play The Wild Knight and Other Poems Wine, Water, and Song Poems, 1916 The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses The Ballad of the White Horse Gloria in Profundis Ubi Ecclesia Rotarians Plays: Magic – A Fantastic Comedy The Turkey and the Turk Literary Criticism: A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Victorian Age in Literature Charles Dickens - Critical Study Hilaire Belloc Robert Louis Stevenson Historical Works: A Short History of England The Barbarism of Berlin Letters to an Old Garibaldian The Crimes of England The New Jerusalem Theological Works: Heretics Orthodoxy The Everlasting Man The Catholic Church and Conversion Eugenics and other Evils Essays: The Defendant Varied Types All Things Considered Tremendous Trifles What's Wrong with the World Alarms and Discursions A Miscellany of Men Divorce versus Democracy Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays The Superstition of Divorce The Uses of Diversity Fancies Versus Fads The Outline of Sanity The Thing Come to Think All is Grist Sidelights on New London and Newer York All I Survey The Well and the Shallows As I was Saying Other Essays... Travel Sketches: Irish Impressions What I Saw in America Biographical Works Autobiography by G. K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton – A Critical Study by Julius West

Appreciations And Criticisms Of The Works Of Charles Dickens

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Author : G.K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09

Appreciations And Criticisms Of The Works Of Charles Dickens written by G.K. Chesterton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Fiction categories.

"Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens" is a work of literary criticism by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, and literary and art critic. Chesterton invites readers to an interesting discussion on some of the most famous works of Dickenson. He studies the plot, characterization, and context of the great novelist's oeuvre and completes his analysis with funny and witty comments.

G K Chesterton

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Author : James Marcus Ryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950

G K Chesterton written by James Marcus Ryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Criticism categories.

Understandably, only a small proportion of the voluminous commentary on Chesterton's voluminous writing is concerned with his literary criticism. Chesterton was not primarily a literary critic. It is impossible to conclusively name at this date that activity for which he will primarily be remembered. His dominant interests lay in religion, philosophy, economics, politics. He expressed his ideas through the media of essays, poems, plays, novels and histories. His energy was gigantic, his diverse production a gigantic rebellion against most of the tendencies of the first thirty-six years of the twentieth century that were the span of his activity. The tendency of those books which do comment on Chesterton's literary criticism is to emphasize its doctrinal nature. Such an emphasis may be observed in Maurice Evans, G. K. Chesterton (1939), Cecil Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, A Criticism (1909), and Gerald Bullett, The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton (1921). Sister Mary Paul Fiesch in her Master's Thesis, G. K. Chesterton as Literary Critic (1944) and Anthony Bogaerts, Chesterton and the Victorian Age (1940) have both written highly readable works. However, I feel that their chief limitation resides in a slighting of those principles which are at the root of Chesterton's judgments or appreciations of literature. In the first chapter I define Chesterton's philosophy. I show that this philosophy may, in the final analysis, be identified with Christian orthodoxy. However, I also indicate that at the basis of this orthodoxy is a highly poetic, personal and unorthodox approach to experience. The elements of this unorthodox philosophy are an affirmation of external reality, a sense of wonder, simplicity of the soul, appreciation of the grotesque, mystical materialism, love for the populace and a sense of limits. In the second chapter I show the manner in which Chesterton's philosophy appears in his literary criticism. The literary criticism dealt with in this chapter is of an appreciative nature. As appreciative critic Chesterton attempts to illuminate his subject's nature by focusing the reader's attention on one or several of those elements of the Chestertonian philosophy which I listed in the preceding paragraph. In the writer who is the subject of his criticism, Chesterton finds reflected some aspect of his own view of experience. Chesterton concentrates on Cobbett's blunt affirmation of plain realities and short words in a world which was facing domination by financial abstractions. He emphasizes Dickens' fierce revolt against the coldness and lifelessness of Manchester Radicalism and Utilitarianism. Dickens, he asserts, understood the revolt of the weak against the strong, but was never misled by abstract and involved interpretations of the social struggle. Chesterton's emphasis on the wonder which should be aroused even by the commonplace prompts an interpretation of the reason for Browning's emloyment of commonplace imagery. Similarly Chesterton finds in Stevenson's light touching on romantic love an attempt to excape to a childhood land of wonder. Chesterton asserts that a certain simplicity of soul, which he finds absent from the writers of the fin de siècle, is desirable in a creative writer. He finds such simplicity both in Dickens and in Dickens' characters. Pickwick and Toots, according to Chesterton, have adventures because they are innocent. He discerns a comparable simplicity in Meredith, in Shakespeare and in Browning. Chesterton finds in his concept of mystical materialism a basis for interpretation of Meredith and Blake. He discerns a hearty love for the populace, not unlike his own democratic ardor, in the works of Dickens and Browning. Chesterton's insistence on the importance of limits appears in his interpretation of Blake and Stevenson. Blake appears as the champion of the firm line, a rebel against Impressionism before its existence as a formal movement. He emphasizes the thinness, clarity and sharpness of outline in Stevenson's style. In the third chapter I show the relaitonship between Chesterton's Christian orthodoxy and his literary criticism. I observe that Chesterton's attitude toward the writers dealt with in this chapter is not appreciative, but judicial and negative, and that he concentrates not on the literary work in its totality, but on the doctrine implicit in it. I observe that when he condemns a doctrine implicit in it. I observe that when he condemns a doctrine the basis or standard for his condemnation is usually Christian orthodoxy, although at times he is less precise in his formulation of the standard. However, even that criticism which stems less unmistakably from Christian orthodoxy -- notably his treatment of Shaw -- is strongly colored by the Christian atmosphere. Chesterton condemns determinism, finding it expressed in varying degrees in Zola, Shelley, Ibsen and Huxley. Because Chesterton finds that Shakespeare has endowed Macbeth with Christian freedom of the will, he is led to assert that Macbeth is the "greatest drama in the world." Chesterton condemns naturalism, which he finds presint in Meredith's interpretation of nature as a pervasively benevolent force. He finds in Christianity an answer both to Meredith's optimism and to Hardy's pandiabolism. Chesterton's upholding of the ancient Christian truth of humility leads him to condemn the pagan pride which he finds in Milton and in George Moore. Asserting that Christianity is never pessimistic, Chesterton condemns the pessimism which he finds to be a dominant mood of Hardy and the writers of the fin de sìcle. Finally, he condemns a complex of ideas and prejudices which he discovers at the root of Shaw's view of life. In the fourth chapter I explain the nature of Chesterton's view of Chaucer and the Middle Ages. Most of the writers who arouse Chesterton's admiration are rebels against some narrow dogma or dominant tendency of their age: Stevenson rejects pessimism; Dickens rejects Utilitarianism; Cobbett rejects industrialism and an emerging world fo complex finance. Chaucer is a notable exception. Chesterton pictures Chaucer as a writer whose dominant characteristic is sanity and repose achieved by willing acceptance of the framework of ideas offered by the Christian Church of his period. In addition, Chesterton emphasizes the contention that Chaucer, although not rebellious against the dominant ideas of the period, gives evidence of possessing most of those qualities which Chesterton finds admirable in a poet. Chaucer delights in the sheer existence of things: he presents a veritable affirmation of external reality; he experiences a sense of wonder at the fact of their existence; he possesses a certain simplicity of soul; he has a lively appreciation of the grotexque and the vulgar. Chesteron employs Chaucer's poetry, and other literature of the Middle Ages, to buttress his contentions about the general nature of that period. He compares the medieval conception of a common humanity to modern discord among classes, particularly intellectuals and populace. He compares medieval rhyme to Renaisance blank verse and finds the letter to be indicative of the beginning of a split between poets and people which is still present. His desire to champion the old Empire of Christendom against the nationalism of the Renaissance and of the twentieth century leads him to emphasize the Latin, rather than the Anglo-Saxon, origins of England's language and literature. Finally, he notes that a loss of medieval spaciousness is apparent in Renaissance literature. Chesterton's chief limitation as a critic was a tendency toward peremptory dismissal of writers whose doctrines did not agree with his. His desire to condemn erroneous philosophies often blinded him to aesthetic value. Also noticeable was a confusing mingling of his own experience with the experience of the writer whom he was discussing a tendency which led at its worst to inaccuracy. This tendency to permit a mingling of his own experience and the experience of his subject often led him, however, to brilliant illumination of his subject's nature. Furthermore, I believe that Chesterton's attempt to extablish some rapport between the creative writer and the general public should be considered a contribution to literary criticism. His customary course was to champion the attitude of the people, to caution poets whom he suspected of making a virtue of obsurity that the poets whom he suspected of making a virtue of obscurity that the poet should be "Pontifex." Convinced that there could be no bridge between minds of there were no common philosophy, Chesterton attempted through his championing, first, of Christian orthodoxy and, ultimately, of Roman Catholicism, to discover some solution to the problem of the modern writer's isolation. Through his vigorous but not bitter insistence on the importance of doctrine -- whether religious, philosophical or economic -- in literature, Chesterton brought breadth and challenge into literary criticism.

Gilbert K Chesterton

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Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-07-14

Gilbert K Chesterton written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Literary Collections categories.

Excerpt from Gilbert K. Chesterton: A Criticism Another object is to estimate Mr. Chesterton's value as a literary artist. This object naturally falls within the scope of the other, for Mr. Chesterton's artistic talents are simply the wea pons that he uses in his war against his contro versial enemies. No doubt there are great chunks of his work that can be enjoyed frankly for their own sake without reference to his teach ing but those little know G. K. C. Who imagine that it was for their own sake that he enjoyed them. 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.

G K Chesterton

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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009

G K Chesterton written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.

A collection of critical essays on G.K. Chesterton's work.

Dickens By Chesterton

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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-12-27

Dickens By Chesterton written by G. K. Chesterton and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-27 with Literary Criticism categories.

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic, widely recognized as a literary genius. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. G. K. Chesterton took great interest in the literature of Charles Dickens, writing several books concerning his life and his works: Charles Dickens – Biographical Sketch Charles Dickens – Critical Study Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens