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Prison-House of Language
A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism
Häftad, 1975
363 kr
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Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and …
On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature
Häftad, 2015
408 kr
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In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusive patterns of …
Situation of Poetry
Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
Häftad, 1978
388 kr
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In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the …
Prison-House of Language
A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism
Häftad, 2026
288 kr
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A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and …
On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy
Häftad, 2026
251 kr
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“Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry’s individual, human scale …
Cervantes and Ariosto
Renewing Fiction
Häftad, 2014
779 kr
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Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his reading of Ariosto's chivalric romance Orlando furioso. At the same time Hart argues that neither Don Quixote nor Orlando furioso is so free from …
Flannery O'Connor and the Language of Apocalypse
Häftad, 2017
752 kr
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Seeing Flannery O'Connor in the company of poets, rather than realistic prose writers, this work shows how she uses recurring figures of speech to transform or re-create the external world. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to …
Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism
Häftad, 2014
388 kr
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Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available …
German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse
Häftad, 2015
408 kr
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Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, …
Six French Poets of Our Time
A Critical and Historical Study
Häftad, 2015
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During the last sixty to seventy years avant-garde poetry in France has evolved in two directions: one toward poetry conceived as a means to an end, the other toward poetry as an end in itself. Focusing on Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Rene Char, Andre du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin, and Marcelin …
Imaginary Library
An Essay on Literature and Society
Häftad, 2014
779 kr
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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest …
Figure of Dante
An Essay on The Vita Nuova
Häftad, 2014
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Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views of memory, self, music, form, and interpretation, and against the facts of Dante's life and culture …
Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind
The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats
Häftad, 2019
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Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode, and examination of this process reveals much about a playwright whose work is simultaneously great …
Symbolic Imagination
Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition
Häftad, 2015
369 kr
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Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for Coleridge, one that partakes of the nature of a …
Echoing Wood of Theodore Roethke
Häftad, 2015
779 kr
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A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy La Belle, who studied with Roethke, here describes the cultural tradition that he defined and created for himself. In so doing, she demonstrates how an understanding of …
Figure of Faust in Valery and Goethe
An Exegesis of Mon Faust
Häftad, 2015
535 kr
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This book interprets Mon Faust and explores the differences between Valery's and Goethe's treatments of the Faust figure. The author shows by close analysis how Valery opposes a Cartesian, anti-Pascalian Faust to Goethe's romantically flawed hero. The title of the project conceived by Valery's …
Achilles' Choice
Examples of Modern Tragedy
Av David Lenson
Häftad, 2015
779 kr
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Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice? David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition--among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and …
Aesthetics of Gyorgy Lukacs
Häftad, 2015
338 kr
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This book-length treatment of Gyorgy Lukacs' major achievement, his Marxist aesthetic theories. Working from the thirty-one volumes of Lukacs' works and twelve separately published essays, speeches, and interviews, Bela Kiralyfalvi provides a full and systematic analysis for English-speaking …
Poetic World of Boris Pasternak
Häftad, 2015
408 kr
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The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's snuggles and successes to explore the ways in …
Wallace Stevens
Imagination and Faith
Av Adalaide Kirby Morris, Robert Buttel
Häftad, 2015
829 kr
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The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in his symbols, and in his poetic forms; it encompasses a critique of Christianity, often wryly humorous and sometimes …
Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition
Häftad, 2015
408 kr
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The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence--of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort--always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes and techniques for his early poetry. Pound's first translations of Provencal poetry were a way of …
On Gide's PROMETHEE
Private Myth and Public Mystification
Häftad, 2015
779 kr
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Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie a miroirs. Originally published in 1972. …
Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature
Av Peter Bien
Häftad, 2015
1047 kr
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Peter Bien focuses on Kazantzakis' obsession with the demotic, the language "on the lips of the people," showing how it governed his writing, his ambition, and his involvement in Greek politics and educational reform. Kazantzakis' obsession worked against him in his Odyssey and found its natural …
Hofmannsthal's Novel Andreas
Memory and Self
Häftad, 2015
896 kr
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Although Hofmannsthal never completed his only novel Andreas, its theme--the quest for self through memory--haunted the Viennese writer and recurs again and again in his poems, libretti, and essays. Analyzing the fragment, David Miles discusses Hofmannsthal's understanding of memory and myth, …
Stage For Poets
Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset
Häftad, 2015
997 kr
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In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently …
On Four Modern Humanists
Hofmannsthal, Gundolph, Curtius, Kantorowicz
Häftad, 2015
466 kr
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Five experts present their viewpoints on four of the most important figures in recent intellectual and cultural history. Professor Egon Schwarz evaluates Hofmannsthal as a critic; Professors C. V. Bock and Lother Helbing combine forces in an analysis of Gundolf; Professor Yakov Malkiel has provided …
Coleridge's Metaphors of Being
Häftad, 2015
829 kr
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In an original and provocative demonstration that Coleridge's later poetry took on a powerful metaphysical conception, Edward Kessler emphasizes Coleridge's struggle with language as a means of both expressing and creating Being. While many of Coleridge's late poems are generally viewed as …
Flannery O'Connor and the Language of Apocalypse
Inbunden, 2017
1700 kr
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Seeing Flannery O'Connor in the company of poets, rather than realistic prose writers, this work shows how she uses recurring figures of speech to transform or re-create the external world. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to …
Coleridge on the Language of Verse
Inbunden, 2017
1700 kr
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Drawing on the entire corpus of Coleridge's prose, Emerson Marks shows how the poet's rationale was grounded in the mimetic theory that informed his distinction between a copy and an imitation which Coleridge himself labeled the universal principle of the fine arts." Originally published in 1981. …
Cervantes and Ariosto
Renewing Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his reading of Ariosto's chivalric romance Orlando furioso. At the same time Hart argues that neither Don Quixote nor Orlando furioso is so free from …
