Author: Alvin EustisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Hippolyte Taine and the Classical Genius
Author: Alvin EustisHippolyte Taine
Author: Leo WeinsteinPublisher: New York : Twayne
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A History of French Passions 1848-1945
Author: Theodore ZeldinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198221784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description
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Essays in Biography
Author: Carl RollysonPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595789536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Essays in Biography is a play on words conveying Carl Rollyson's attempt to explore the nature of biography in pieces about the history of the genre and in portrayals of biographers (Plutarch, Leon Edel, and W. A. Swanberg), literary figures (Lillian Hellman, Jack London), philosophers and critics (Leo Strauss and Hippolyte Taine), political figures (Winston Churchill and Napoleon), and artists (Rembrandt and Rubens). An essay in biography, Rollyson argues, is an effort to comprehend a life that is inherently incomplete and subject to revision. Many of the facts about a biographical subject's life that are blandly presented in reference books have been discovered by biographers at great cost to their reputations. With the history of biography as a censored genre in mind, he encourages readers of biography to look critically at the biographies they read-no matter whether those biographies are book-length narratives or short encyclopedia entries. Many of the pairings in Essays in Biography are meant to evoke Plutarch's presentation of "parallel lives." The biographical essay, Rollyson concludes, is a unique form of knowledge, one that modern critics have devalued by trying to separate the creator from his creation.
Taine and the Fine Arts
Author: Thomas H. GoetzPublisher: Madrid : Playor
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Critical Theory Since Plato
Author: Hazard AdamsPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show students how critical theory has evolved and progressed over time.
A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: The later nineteenth century
Author: René WellekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
University of California Publications in Modern Philology
Author: A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The nineteenth century in two parts
Author: Richard A. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
French Prose and Criticism, 1790 to World War II
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: New York : Chelsea House
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A collection of twenty-six critical essays on French prose and criticism from 1790 to World War II.