Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195112214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
The Anxiety of Influence
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195112214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
A New Theory for American Poetry
Author: Angus FLETCHERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674037014
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
Theory of the Lyric
Author: Jonathan CullerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425804
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan Culler reveals the limitations of these two models—the Romantic and the modern—and challenges the assumption that poems exist to be interpreted.
The Anxiety of Influence
Author: Harold BloomScribbledehobble
Author: James JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Joyce kept this workbook as a source for expressions and ideas for Finnegans Wake. The structure of the notebook and the way in Joyce used it offer insights into his methods and the writing of Finnegans wake.
Poetry and Repetition
Author: Krystyna MazurPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135877750
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text.
Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art
Author: Samuel Henry ButcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Theory into Poetry
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401202516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
At the beginning of the 21st century, there is still no generally accepted comprehensive definition of the lyric or differentiated modern toolkit for its analysis. The reception of poetry is largely characterised either by an empathetic identification of critics with the lyric persona or by exclusive interest in formal patterning. The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors ‘theorise’ the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion. The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory.
The Theory of Poetry
Author: Lascelles AbercrombiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Poetics of Aristotle
Author: AristotlePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544217574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."