Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism – serie
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Advantage of Lyric
Essays on Feeling in Poetry
Inbunden, 2013
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In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings publicly. She then gives detailed consideraton to the lyric poetry of John Donne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and a group of poets central to the modernist …
Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot
New Essays
E-bok, 2014
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In his time T.S. Eliot established a new critical orthodoxy by which no major modern critic in England or America remained unaffected, but a decade has passed since his death and a generation or more since his extraordinary influence was at its height. It has therefore seemed worth attempting a …
Science of Aspects
The Changing Role of Fact in the Work of Coleridge, Ruskin and Hopkins
Inbunden, 2013
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‘There is a science of the aspects of things, as well as of their nature’ – if this dictum of Ruskin is central to his aims in Modern Painters it points also to the remarkable affinity of creative effort to record and to interpret the natural world that links him with Coleridge at the beginning and …
Active Universe
Pantheism and the Concept of Imagination in the English Romantic Poets
Av H. W. Piper
E-bok, 2014
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This book is a study of ''Romantic Pantheism'' and its part in the development of the Romantic theory of the Imagination. The crucial point in the history of English Romanticism came when the philosophical concept of the ''active universe'' met the developing theory of the Imagination. In its …
Coriolanus' in Europe
E-bok, 2014
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Coriolanus has always attracted strong interest, whether seen as the last of Shakespeare''s tragedies, or as his most political play. In performance it has been constantly reinterpreted and has often strayed far from Shakespeare''s text. The Royal Shakespeare Company production, mounted by Terry …
Sylvia Plath
Poetry and Existence
Inbunden, 2013
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Admirers of the work of Sylvia Plath will welcome this new paperback edition of a study, first published by The Athlone Press in 1976, which provides coherent and persuasive readings of her poetry. Drawing upon the traditional skills of the literary critic, David Holbrook also deploys the …
Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'
Inbunden, 2013
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In devoting a whole book to Measure for Measure Miss Lascelles has expressed her conviction that in no other way can the sharp divisions of opinion which characterise recent criticism of the play be resolved. She considers that to continue discussing the large issues involved in the limited space …
Appropriate Form
An Essay on the Novel
E-bok, 2014
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In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction – story, the working-out of a moral problem, and “truthfulness”, defined as “the lively representation of reality”. From this standpoint she discusses and …
Mid-Victorian Studies
Av Geoffrey Tillotson, Kathleen Tillotson
E-bok, 2014
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This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published) embraces many aspects of the English literary scene in the middle of the nineteenth century. Though various in origin the collection has this unity: it has been the constant concern …
Frail Vessels
Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot
Av Hazel Mews
Inbunden, 2013
2266 kr
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The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John Stuart Mill’s essay On the Subjection of Women (1869) – a crucial phase in the emancipation movement – also saw the emergence of England’s greatest women writers, whose response to the …
Shakespeare and the Story
Aspects of Creation
Av Joan Rees
Inbunden, 2013
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It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew upon have been often and rewardingly studied. The emphasis of this book, however, is not on sources but on what may be called Shakespeare’s story-telling technique especially as seen …
Hamlet Closely Observed
E-bok, 2014
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A major interpretative account of Shakespeare''s play, this is a close scrutiny which will engage readers directly with the text and perfomance of the work. The Renaissance code of honor is seen to be of central importance to the character of the hero, his actions, and to the play as a whole; and, …
Thackeray at Work
E-bok, 2014
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The study of Thackeray''s major fiction reconstructs the novelist''s working methods with the help of manuscript material, much of it previously unpublished. The book''s main argument is directed against the commonplace view that Thackeray was in some way a ''careless'' artist. Much that appears …
Protean Shape
A Study in Eighteenth-century Vocabulary and Usage
Inbunden, 2013
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The aim of this book is to let us see our language as a living and developing human activity in a period of history which offers special advantages for the purpose. Miss Tucker’s method is to analyse in the course of a connected narrative a large, wide-ranging body of words and phrases from two …
Augustan Poetic Diction
E-bok, 2014
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This volume makes conveniently available to students and others the group of chapters in Professor Geoffrey Tillotson''s Augustan Studies in which he deals with the poetic theory and practice of the Augustan age as a whole, rather than with particular works. Augustan poetry as defined by Professor …
Four Tudor Interludes
Inbunden, 2013
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The important influence of the Tudor ‘interlude’ on later Elizabethan drama is now widely recognized and the inherent theatrical values of these short plays of the era which preceded the opening of permanent theatres have become increasingly apparent through modern productions and study. Largely …
Suggestion and Statement in Poetry
E-bok, 2014
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Unstated meaning has always been a feature of poetry, but it is in our own century that it has established itself not only as the prevailing mode of expression but also as the central concern of analytic criticism. Although a variety of terms, such as Ambiguity, Irony and Gesture, have been …
Heart's Events
The Victorian Poetry of Relationships
E-bok, 2014
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Dr Ball offers an analysis and evaluation of a number of Victorian long poems and groups of lyrics which trace the course of close personal relationships. Her argument is that whereas Romantic treatment of such material was limited, the Victorian poets not only made this emotional territory their …
Mid-Victorian Studies
Av Geoffrey Tillotson, Kathleen Tillotson
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published) embraces many aspects of the English literary scene in the middle of the nineteenth century. Though various in origin the collection has this unity: it has been the constant concern …
Augustan Studies
Inbunden, 2013
2266 kr
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It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry; they know what Wordsworth said about Pope before they read Pope. This means that when they read Pope and other eighteenth-century poets, they apply the wrong criteria. An …
Aldous Huxley
A Study of the Major Novels
E-bok, 2014
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Essays analysing the decline of Aldous Huxley as a novelist have become a commonplace of literary criticism over the past two decades, yet he continues to be read and few writers equal his ability to make moral concepts exciting, to animate ideas and clothe them with life and vitality. In this …
Coriolanus' in Europe
Inbunden, 2013
2266 kr
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Coriolanus has always attracted strong interest, whether seen as the last of Shakespeare’s tragedies, or as his most political play. In performance it has been constantly reinterpreted and has often strayed far from Shakespeare’s text.The Royal Shakespeare Company production, mounted by Terry Hands …
Boccaccio in England
From Chaucer to Tennyson
Inbunden, 2013
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Professor Wright’s objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio’s writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, …
Chaucer and Langland
Historical and Textual Approaches
Av George Kane
E-bok, 2014
2436 kr
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Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from …
Criticism and the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2014
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The re-emergence into critical esteem of the literature of the English mid-nineteenth century has been one of the post-war excitements for students and general readers. Mid-nineteenth century literature is not simply the best body of literature the English have produced. It happens also to be …
Hamlet Closely Observed
Inbunden, 2013
2266 kr
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A major interpretative account of Shakespeare's play, this is a close scrutiny which will engage readers directly with the text and perfomance of the work. The Renaissance code of honor is seen to be of central importance to the character of the hero, his actions, and to the play as a whole; and, …
Existential and its Exits
Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter
Inbunden, 2013
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The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contemporary literature – and this is precisely what Dr Dobrez achieves, taking four leading writers and discussing their work in relation to Husserl, …
Making of Menander's Comedy
E-bok, 2014
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The discovery on papyrus of plays by Menander, the greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, at last makes possible an evaluation on his own terms of an ancient author who, through the adaptations of Plautus and Terence, profoundly influenced the course of western drama. The present study establishes a …
Story-Shaped World
Fiction and Metaphysics: Some Variations on a Theme
Av Brian Wicker
Inbunden, 2013
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Story-telling, since its earliest beginnings, has drawn its power not simply from the intrinsic fascination of a skilful narrative but from the fact that human beings are compelled to make ‘fictions’ if they are to explain and come to terms with the world they experience. This holds true, as Mr …
Tellers and Listeners
The Narrative Imagination
Inbunden, 2013
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Nature, not art, makes us all story-tellers. Daily and nightly we devise fictions and chronicles, calling some of them daydreams or dreams, some of them nightmares, some of them truths, records, reports and plans. The object of this book is to look at these natural narrative forms and themes, which …
