Author: Charles Read BaskervillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
English Elements in Jonson's Early Comedy
Author: Charles Read BaskervillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
English Elements in Jonson's Early Comedy
Author: Charles Read BaskervillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The History of Early English
Author: Keith JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317636066
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from its beginnings until the end of the Early Modern English period. Taking an activity-based approach, this text ensures that students learn by engaging with the fascinating evolution of this language rather than simply reading about it. The History of Early English: Provides a comprehensive introduction to early, middle and early modern English; Introduces each language period with a text from writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare, accompanied by a series of guiding questions and commentaries that will engage readers and give them a flavour of the language of the time; Features a range of activities that include discussion points, questions, online tasks and preparatory activities that seamlessly take the reader from one chapter to the next; Is supported by a companion website featuring audio files, further activities and links to online material. Written by an experienced teacher and author, this book is the essential course textbook for any module on the history of English.
The University of Texas Record
Author: University of TexasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Vol. 6, no. 4; The Prather memorial.
The Pastoral Element in Shakespeare's Early Comedies
Author: Richard John CodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The University of Texas Record
Author: The Cambridge History of English Literature Volume X the Age of Johnson
Author: Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism
Author: Edward TomarkenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318570X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken' s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson's early writings, London and Irene, as instances of the writer trying with only partial success to achieve what he first realized in The Vanity of Human Wishes, a means of permitting literary form to refer to conduct. Later works, such as The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, are viewed as further developments of this method, which achieved its fullest expression in Rasselas and the Life of Pope. Such a reading of Johnson develops an aesthetic that operates on the margins between the literary and the extra-literary. Although Johnson's own critical view was unable to accommodate such a position, Tomarken shows that in practice he moved toward it by a process of trial and error manifest in his poetry and narratives. When raised to the level of critical method, this approach goes beyond the assumptions not only of Johnson's day but also of our own. Tomarken's theoretical coda demonstrates how the choices of current critical theory, like those in the marriage debate in Rasselas, can be understood to interact with one another. Specifically, he proposes a dialectical relationship for two approaches hermeneutics and structuralism-usually seen as opposed to one another. This innovative study will interest not only Johnson scholars but all those concerned with critical theory.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Dryden to Johnson
Author: Boris FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
V.1. pt. 1. Medieval literature : Chaucer and the alliterative tradition. pt. 2. Medieval literature : the European inheritance -- v.2. The age of Shakespeare - - v.3. From Donne to Marvell -- v.4. From Dryden to Johnson -- v.5. From Blake to Byron -- v.6. From Dickens to Hardy -- v.7. From James to Elliot -- v.8. The present -- v.9. American literature.
Novels, Rhetoric, and Criticism: A Brief History of Belles Lettres and British Literary Culture, 1680 – 1900
Author: Jack M. DownsPublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648895255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Developing a history of the English novel requires the inclusion of a vast range of cultural, economic, religious, social, and aesthetic influences. But the role of eighteenth-century English rhetorical theory in the emergence of the novel – and the critical discourse surrounding that emergence – has often been neglected or overlooked. The influence of rhetorical theory in the development of the English novel is undeniable, however, and changes to rhetorical theory in Britain during the eighteenth century led to the development of a critical aesthetic discourse about the novel in Victorian England. This study argues that eighteenth-century 'belles lettres' rhetorical theory played a key role in developing a horizon of expectation concerning the nature and purpose of the novel that extended well into the nineteenth century. There is a connection between the emergence of the English novel, eighteenth-century rhetorical theory, and Victorian novel criticism that has been neglected; this study attempts to recover and articulate that connection.