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Author: James Thomas Grein Publisher: ISBN: 9781332948710 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 350
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Excerpt from Dramatic Criticism, Vol. 3: 1900-1901 The reason why I state the above, as a preface to an unfavourable criticism on a dull and ill - manufactured play, is that I wish to plead extenuating circumstances for the authors. If not Cromwell but some other military gentleman had been the peg whereon to hang a story of love, intrigue, and afatal scrap of paper, we should, per haps, have been spared the dulness. Cromwell by another name, and shorn of the oratory befitting the pulpit of a corrugated chapel, might have been a fascinating swash buckler, and the one stirring scene of the play, wherein the Colonel suddenly draws away a curtain and displays the army, for which his comrades have been clamouring in order to be able to fight, would then, perhaps, have been the redeeming feature. Unfortunately the pulpit oratory undid what the dramatists had tried to achieve, and when act after act ended with invocative soliloquies, while the curtain finally descended upon the word Amen, it was not at all astonishing that the plaudits of the partisans were somewhat rudely broken in upon by the groans of the malcontents. The latter, like myself, had taken a dis like to this Cromwell, who constantly had the name of his Maker in his mouth, and whose deeds were the veriest antithesis to Christian love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James Thomas Grein Publisher: ISBN: 9781332948710 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 350
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Excerpt from Dramatic Criticism, Vol. 3: 1900-1901 The reason why I state the above, as a preface to an unfavourable criticism on a dull and ill - manufactured play, is that I wish to plead extenuating circumstances for the authors. If not Cromwell but some other military gentleman had been the peg whereon to hang a story of love, intrigue, and afatal scrap of paper, we should, per haps, have been spared the dulness. Cromwell by another name, and shorn of the oratory befitting the pulpit of a corrugated chapel, might have been a fascinating swash buckler, and the one stirring scene of the play, wherein the Colonel suddenly draws away a curtain and displays the army, for which his comrades have been clamouring in order to be able to fight, would then, perhaps, have been the redeeming feature. Unfortunately the pulpit oratory undid what the dramatists had tried to achieve, and when act after act ended with invocative soliloquies, while the curtain finally descended upon the word Amen, it was not at all astonishing that the plaudits of the partisans were somewhat rudely broken in upon by the groans of the malcontents. The latter, like myself, had taken a dis like to this Cromwell, who constantly had the name of his Maker in his mouth, and whose deeds were the veriest antithesis to Christian love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780028680286 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages :
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Presents literary criticism on the works of dramatists of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, radio transcripts, diaries, newspapers, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
Author: George Alexander Kennedy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521300087 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 790
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This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.
Author: George Alexander Kennedy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521300148 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 506
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This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.
Author: H. B. Nisbet Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521317207 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 978
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This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
Author: M. A. R. Habib Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316175170 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 796
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In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range of perspectives, international scholars examine the growth of literary criticism as an institution, and the major critical developments in diverse national traditions and in different genres, as well as the major movements of Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism and Decadence. The History offers a detailed focus on some of the era's great critical figures, such as Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine and Matthew Arnold, and includes essays devoted to the connections of literary criticism with other disciplines in science, the arts and Biblical studies. The publication of this volume marks the completion of the monumental Cambridge History of Literary Criticism from antiquity to the present day.
Author: George Alexander Kennedy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521300131 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 508
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Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism deals with the most influential and hotly debated areas of literary theory: those developing in Europe but having their main impact in the Anglo-American world of academic literary studies, whose course they have fundamentally redirected. The structuralism, poststructuralism, Russian formalism, semiotics, narratology, hermeneutics, phenomenology, reception theory, and speech act theory associated with European writers including Barthes, Todorov, Derrida, and Iser, are here described in the context of their original development, but with an eye also to their eventual influence; and the volume includes a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on deconstruction. Incorporating full bibliographies, this volume engages systematically with the history of the twentieth century's most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements.
Author: George Alexander Kennedy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521317177 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 400
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Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary history, theory, and criticism.
Author: James Thomas Grein
Author: James Thomas Grein
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Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Author: H. B. Nisbet
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Author: M. A. R. Habib
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Author: George Alexander Kennedy