Author: John DrydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Mac Flecknoe, 1682
Author: John DrydenMac Flecknoe..
Author: John DrydenAlexander's Feast ; MacFlecknoe ; and St. Cecilia's Day
Author: John DrydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Cecilia's Day
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
Author: Robert C. EvansPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826498507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of current research.
The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
Author: Jonathan GreenbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030188
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
In Search of the Classic
Author: Steven ShankmanPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271025728
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The &"classical,&" Steven Shankman argues, should not be confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity, although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman's book searches for and attempts to formulate the shape of the continuing presence&—as embodied in particular literary works mainly from Western antiquity and the neoclassical and modern periods&—of what the author calls a &"classical&" understanding of literature. For Shankman, literature, defined from a classical perspective, is a coherent, compelling, and rationally defensible representation that resists being reduced either to the mere recording of material reality or to the bare exemplification of an abstract philosophical precept. He derives his definition largely from his reading of Greek literature from Homer through Plato, from the history of literary criticism, and from the Greco-Roman tradition in English, American, and French literature. Shankman reveals unsuspected yet convincing connections among authors of such widely disparate times and places. His idea of the &"classic&" that authorizes these connections is presented as normative, thus making possible the evaluation of literary works and, in turn, forthright discussion of what constitutes the &"literary&" as distinct from other kinds of discourse. Shankman's study runs counter to a strong tendency of contemporary criticism that argues precisely against any distinct category of the &"literary.&" He offers a series of interpretations that cumulatively advance theoretical discussion by challenging scholars to rethink the critical paradigms of postmodernism. At the center of the book is a discussion of the quintessentially classic Val&éry poem Le Cimeti&ère marin and the classic qualities it shares with Pindar's third Pythian ode, from which Val&éry derives the epigraph for his poem.
The Reader's Index
Author: Croydon Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
An Introduction to English Literature
Author: Henry Spackman PancoastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Based upon the author's Representative English literature. of.
The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden
Author: John DrydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
John Dryden
Author: Helen and Kinsley KinsleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136171592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.