The English University Novel
Author | : Mortimer Robinson Proctor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
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Author | : Mortimer Robinson Proctor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
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Author | : Janet M. Atwill |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education, Humanistic |
ISBN | : 9780801476051 |
Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotle's Rhetoric. This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techn , or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the fifth century B.C.E. Atwill examines these traditions, together with sophistic and platonic conceptions, and considers the commentaries on Aristotle's Rhetoric by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techn and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity, Atwill's examination of techn also explores the role of political, economic, and educational institutions in standardizing a specific model for subjectivity. She argues that the liberal arts traditions largely eclipsed the social and political functions of rhetoric, transforming it from an art of disrupting and reinventing lines of power to a discipline of producing a normative subject, defined by virtue but modeled on a specific gender and class type.
Author | : Rachael Gilmour |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1784991791 |
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
Author | : Michael McKeon |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2002-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801869594 |
The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Author | : Amanda Claybaugh |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 150172701X |
In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and suffrage activists—gave novelists a new sense of purpose and prompted them to invent new literary forms. The result was a distinctively Anglo-American realism, in which novelists, conceiving of themselves as reformers, sought to act upon their readers—and, through their readers, the world. Indeed, reform became so predominant that many novelists borrowed from reformist writings even though they were skeptical of reform itself. Among them are some of the century's most important authors: Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Mark Twain. The Novel of Purpose proposes a new way of understanding social reform in Great Britain and the United States. Amanda Claybaugh offers readings that connect reformist agitation to the formal features of literary works and argues for a method of transatlantic study that attends not only to nations, but also to the many groups that collaborate across national boundaries.
Author | : Robert L. Caserio |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828339 |
The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.
Author | : Laurie Langbauer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501723065 |
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.
Author | : Priya Joshi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231125844 |
Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, In Another Country shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. She further demonstrates how Indian novelists writing in English, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.
Author | : Mortimer R. Proctor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
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Author | : Patrick Parrinder |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199264856 |
Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.