Literary Criticism in Perspective – serie
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Cormac McCarthy's Maps and Mazes
Tracing the Critical Reception
Inbunden, 2026
1278 kr
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Traces the scholarly conversation on McCarthy, an ever-changing and challenging author who asked big questions, from his obscure beginnings to the height of his fame and beyond.From the beginning of a career that encapsulated decades-long obscurity, best-selling fame, and a Pulitzer Prize, Cormac …
Kafka's The Castle and the Critical Imagination
Inbunden, 1995
988 kr
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Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel.Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable masterpieces of modernist fiction, and a focus of literary criticsm and theory. In this chronological survey of the critical …
Oscar Wilde in the 1990s
The Critic as Creator
Av Melissa Knox
Inbunden, 2001
1440 kr
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An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century.In 1891, Oscar Wilde defined 'the highest criticism' as 'the record of one's own soul, and insisted that only by 'intensifying his own personality' could the critic interpret the personality and work of …
Schiller's Aesthetic Essays
Two Centuries of Criticism
Inbunden, 1995
1440 kr
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Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on …
Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
Criticism 1947-1992
Inbunden, 1996
1440 kr
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Wide-ranging survey of the critical reaction provoked by Mann's Doctor Faustus.Since its publication in 1947, Thomas Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme has generated diverse reactions from the critics, and continues to provoke controversies. This volume traces the history of its critical …
Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism
Professional Attention
Av Michael G. Coyle, Roxana Preda
Inbunden, 2018
1516 kr
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This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the questions they have asked.Forty-five years after his death, and more than seventy years after his indictment for treason, Ezra Pound remains a deeply …
Critical Reception of Alfred Döblin's Major Novels
Av Wulf Koepke
Inbunden, 2003
1516 kr
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The first thorough study in English of the reception of Döblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Döblin scholars.Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) is one of the major German writers of the twentieth century. His experimental, ever-changing, avant-garde style kept both readers and critics off guard, …
Georg Büchner's Woyzeck
A History of Its Criticism
Inbunden, 2001
1440 kr
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A study of the literary criticism of the famous and influential German play fragment Woyzeck.Although it was never completed, Georg Büchner's drama fragment Woyzeck occupies a pivotal place in the development of modern drama: its stature and influence have been recognized by representatives of …
Dickens Industry
Critical Perspectives 1836-2005
Inbunden, 2008
1516 kr
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The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of one of the great writers of the English language.Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels …
Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010
An Honest Man and a Good Writer
Inbunden, 2014
1440 kr
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Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story "Sonny's Blues" remains a …
Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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A study of the controversy-filled scholarship on Poe from the time of his death to the present.Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of his death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological …
Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches
Inbunden, 2011
607 kr
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The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works.Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the …
American Icon
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in Critical and Cultural Context
Av Robert Beuka
Inbunden, 2011
607 kr
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How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive body of criticism on the work …
Jane Austen
Two Centuries of Criticism
Inbunden, 2011
1502 kr
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A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her …
Critical Reception of Henry James
Creating a Master
Av Linda Simon
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer.Although some of Henry James's contemporary critics deemed him just short of a great writer, history has elevated him to indisputable preeminence in the American canon. Linda Simon chronicles …
Approaching Emily Dickinson
Critical Currents and Crosscurrents since 1960
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of one of the most-studied American poets.When Klaus Lubbers's meticulously detailed Emily Dickinson: The Critical Revolution appeared in 1968, examining Dickinson criticism up to 1962, a second revolution in Dickinson criticism was …
Dickens Industry
Critical Perspectives 1836-2005
Häftad, 2011
460 kr
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The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of one of the great writers of the English language.Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels …
Reading Abolition
The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass
Inbunden, 2016
1440 kr
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A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass represent a crucial strand in nineteenth-century American literature: the struggle for the abolition of …
Following Faulkner
The Critical Response to Yoknapatawpha's Architect
Inbunden, 2017
1440 kr
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An examination of how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades.William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to …
Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014
Shaping an American Literary Icon
Inbunden, 2015
1516 kr
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Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall.Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was …
Critical Life of Toni Morrison
Inbunden, 2021
1306 kr
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The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings.Winner of the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for Best Single-Authored Book, 2019-2022Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most …
Becoming John Updike
Critical Reception, 1958-2010
Häftad, 2015
415 kr
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A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late …
Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010
An Honest Man and a Good Writer
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story "Sonny's Blues" remains a …
Willa Cather
The Critical Conversation
Inbunden, 2020
1427 kr
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A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.The ever-growing body of criticism on Willa Cather and her fiction is indicative of her enduring position as a pre-eminent figure of twentieth-century American …
Jane Austen
Two Centuries of Criticism
Häftad, 2017
434 kr
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A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her …
Mark Twain under Fire
Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851-2015
Häftad, 2018
434 kr
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Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been "under fire" since the advent of his career.Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began …
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Häftad, 2019
385 kr
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An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, …
At War with The Red Badge of Courage
A Critical and Cultural History
Inbunden, 2020
1278 kr
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The story of the critical reception of Crane's great Civil War novel from its publication to the present, with particular attention to the effects of later wars on that reception.Stephen Crane's masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage was a sensation when it first appeared in 1895: many readers were …
Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014
Shaping an American Literary Icon
Häftad, 2020
460 kr
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Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall.Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was …
Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Beyond
Inbunden, 2023
1502 kr
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Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work.Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and moviegoers know Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator …
