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The End Of Literary Theory
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Author : Stein Haugom Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-03-19
The End Of Literary Theory written by Stein Haugom Olsen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this collection are concerned with the philosophical problems that arise in connection with the understanding and evaluation of literature - such problems as the relationship between the work and the author (authorial intention), between the work and the world (reference and truth), the definition of a literary work, and the nature of literary theory itself. Professor Olsen attacks many of the orthodoxies of modern literary theory, in particular the enterprise to build a comprehensive systematic literary theory. His own work is informed by a consistent perspective: the assumption that literature is a social institution governed by conventions, and that answers to problems of interpretation and appreciation can be found only through an analysis of these conventions. This is an important book for scholars and students of literary theory and philosophy, especially for those who see an ever-increasing cross-fertilization between the two disciplines.
An Introduction To Literature Criticism And Theory
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Author : Andrew Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-02
An Introduction To Literature Criticism And Theory written by Andrew Bennett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its fifth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter. The fifth edition has been revised throughout and includes four new chapters – ‘Feelings’, ‘Wounds’, ‘Body’ and ‘Love’ – to incorporate exciting recent developments in literary studies. In addition to further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary of key literary terms. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.
Modern Literary Theory A Comparative Introduction
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Author : Ann Jefferson
language : en
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Release Date : 1982
Modern Literary Theory A Comparative Introduction written by Ann Jefferson and has been published by Barnes & Noble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
The aim of this book is to provide within the compass of a single volume an introduction to the major developments in this field that have taken place during the twentieth century in Europe and North America. The authors explain the assumptions of these theories concerning the nature of literature and criticism, showing how they relate to one another, and linking them to the general issues raised by all critical practice. In succeeding chapters, the book considers individual theorists and schools, focusing in turn on Russian Formalism, modern linguistics, post-structuralism, modern psychoanalytic criticism and Marxist theories. For readers who wish to pursue further their study of particular theories, selected bibliographies are provided at the end of each chapter. -- From publisher's description.
Fraud
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Author : Peter Washington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Fraud written by Peter Washington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
The Birth And Death Of Literary Theory
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Author : Galin Tihanov
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-30
The Birth And Death Of Literary Theory written by Galin Tihanov and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Until the 1940s, when awareness of Russian Formalism began to spread, literary theory remained almost exclusively a Russian and Eastern European invention. The Birth and Death of Literary Theory tells the story of literary theory by focusing on its formative interwar decades in Russia. Nowhere else did literary theory emerge and peak so early, even as it shared space with other modes of reflection on literature. A comprehensive account of every important Russian trend between the world wars, the book traces their wider impact in the West during the 20th and 21st centuries. Ranging from Formalism and Bakhtin to the legacy of classic literary theory in our post-deconstruction, world literature era, Galin Tihanov provides answers to two fundamental questions: What does it mean to think about literature theoretically, and what happens to literary theory when this option is no longer available? Asserting radical historicity, he offers a time-limited way of reflecting upon literature—not in order to write theory's obituary but to examine its continuous presence across successive regimes of relevance. Engaging and insightful, this is a book for anyone interested in theory's origins and in what has happened since its demise.
The Crisis In Criticism
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Author : William E. Cain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Crisis In Criticism written by William E. Cain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This book is a statement of my views on a number of problems in literary theory and contemporary criticism. But it is also - as any theoretical study must be - a progress report, a record of inquiry that has not yet concluded. In a sense, a book on "theory" cannot really end. At a certain point, work on it ceases, even though one continues to think critically and skeptically about the problems - and the solutions - that the book contains." -- Preface. p. xi.
Fall Of Literary Theory A 21st Century Return To Deconstruction And Poststructuralism With Applications
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Author : LIANA VRAJITORU ANDREASEN.
language : en
Publisher:
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Fall Of Literary Theory A 21st Century Return To Deconstruction And Poststructuralism With Applications written by LIANA VRAJITORU ANDREASEN. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Sense Of An Ending
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Author : Frank Kermode
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Sense Of An Ending written by Frank Kermode and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Fiction categories.
Literature And The Contemporary
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Author : Roger Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Literature And The Contemporary written by Roger Luckhurst and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day. The essays in the book survey theories of temporality from various cultural and philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from feminist, postcolonial and `queer' perspectives discussing literature in `our time'. The collection addresses such central issues as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time, racial and sexual identities in the 1990s, and covers a wide range of contemporary authors, works and issues, some of which are treated for the first time. Among the contemporary works discussed are the prize-winning books Graham Swift's Last Orders, Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres. While discussing some of the most significant novels of the 1990s, this collection also offers a diverse yet cohesive critique of the millennial leanings of much `postmodernist' criticism, which it argues should be replaced by more variously nuanced engagements with literature and the contemporary.
The Sense Of An Ending
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Author : Frank Kermode
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-06
The Sense Of An Ending written by Frank Kermode and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burrows, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature with "traditionalists" such as Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, as well as contemporary "schismatics," the French "new novelists," and such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the difference between modern and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, or commenting on the vogue of the Absurd, Kermode is distinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.