Modern World Literature
Author | : Holt Rinehart & Winston |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : 9780030946356 |
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Author | : Holt Rinehart & Winston |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : 9780030946356 |
Author | : Lori Verstegen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781623413446 |
Author | : Martin Seymour-Smith |
Publisher | : Teach Yourself |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : 9780340202296 |
Author | : K. M. Newton |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748636749 |
This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht. By contrast, writers such as Hardy and Conrad, influenced by Schopenhauerean pessimism and Darwinism, attempt to modernise the concept of the tragic. Nietzsche's revisionist interpretation of the tragic influenced writers who either take pessimism or the 'Dionysian' commitment to life to an extreme, as in Strindberg and D. H. Lawrence. Different views emerge in the period following the second world war with the 'Theatre of the Absurd' and postmodern anti-foundationalism.
Author | : Malcolm Bradbury |
Publisher | : Penguin Group USA |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780140114843 |
Analyzes the work and influence of Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Conrad, Mann, Proust, Joyce, Eliot, Pirandelllo, Woolf, and Kafka
Author | : Malcolm Bradbury |
Publisher | : Harvill Secker |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Schmidt |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1299 |
Release | : 2014-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674369068 |
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but “artist practitioners,” men and women who feel “hot love” for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché—some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.
Author | : Gerald Graff |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781566630979 |
The first and still one of the best critiques of post-1960s cultural radicalism, analyzing why and how the defenders of literature have gone wrong. "A wonderfully trenchant and illuminating inquiry.--Virginia Quarterly Review.
Author | : Laura Getty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 9781940771229 |
"The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they begin reading, with topics that students can research further. An open access literature textbook cannot be a history book at the same time, but history is the great companion of literature: The more history students know, the easier it is for them to interpret literature. In an electronic age, with this text available to anyone with computer access around the world, it has never been more necessary to recognize and understand differences among nationalities and cultures. The literature in this anthology is foundational, in the sense that these works influenced the authors who followed them. A word to the instructor: The texts have been chosen with the idea that they can be compared and contrasted, using common themes. Rather than numerous (and therefore often random) choices of texts from various periods, these selected works are meant to make both teaching and learning easier. While cultural expectations are not universal, many of the themes found in these works are."--Open Textbook Library.
Author | : William Egginton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408843862 |
'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing.' In Cervantes' time, 'fiction' was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or 'poetry' which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman, addled from reading too many books on chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off to put the world to rights. The book was hugely entertaining, broke the existing rules, devised a new set and, in the process, created a new, modern hybrid form we know today as the novel. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his life and influences converged in his work, and how his work – especially Don Quixote – radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.