The Birth Of New Criticism

Author : Donald J. Childs
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
ISBN 13 : 9780773542112
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of New Criticism written by Donald J. Childs and published by McGill Queens Univ. This book was released on 2013 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of the origins of the twentieth century's most influential method for studying poetry.

Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226471983
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John Crowe Ransom
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780837190792
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Donald J. Childs
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589244
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of New Criticism written by Donald J. Childs and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald Childs challenges this consensus and provides a new and authoritative narrative of the movement's origins. At the centre stand Robert Graves and Laura Riding, two poet-critics who have been written out of the history of New Criticism. Childs brings to light the long-forgotten early criticism of Graves to detail the ways in which his interpretive methods and ideas evolved into the practice of "close reading," demonstrating that Graves played such a fundamental part in forming both Empson's and Richards's critical thinking that the story of twentieth-century literary criticism must be re-evaluated and re-told. Childs also examines the important influence that Riding's work had on Graves, Empson, and Richards, establishing the importance of this long-neglected thinker and critic. A provocative and cogently argued work, The Birth of New Criticism is both an important intellectual history of the movement and a sharply observed account of the cultural politics of its beginnings and legacy.

Author : Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814730884
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Critical History of Old English Literature written by Stanley B. Greenfield and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.

Author : Art Berman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060021
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : David H. Richter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111895873X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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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 496 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.

Author : Mark Royden Winchell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916477
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism written by Mark Royden Winchell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a career that spanned sixty years, Cleanth Brooks was involved in most of the major controversies facing the humanities from the 1930s until his death in 1994. He was arguably the most important American literary critic of the mid-twentieth century. Because it is impossible to understand modern literary criticism apart from Cleanth Brooks, or Cleanth Brooks apart from modern literary criticism, Mark Royden Winchell gives us not only an account of one man's influence but also a survey of literary criticism in twentieth-century America. More than any other individual, Brooks helped steer literary study away from historical and philological scholarship by emphasizing the autonomy of the text. He applied the methods of what came to be called the New Criticism, not only to the modernist works for which these methods were created, but to the entire canon of English poetry, from John Donne to William Butler Yeats. In his many critical books, especially The Well Wrought Urn and the textbooks he edited with Robert Penn Warren and others, Brooks taught several generations of students how to read literature without prejudice or preconception.

Author : Joel Elias Spingarn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Criticism written by Joel Elias Spingarn and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521300124
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.