Author: Norman Norwood HollandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231069809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Dynamics of Literary Response
Author: Norman Norwood HollandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231069809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Dynamics of Literary Response
Author: Norman Norwood HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Nature of Literary Response
Author: Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412811384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
Perspective Criticism
Author: Gary YamasakiPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227901703
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Perspective Criticism sets out a new and illuminating biblical methodology designed to help the reader of biblical narratives in which there is a character engaged in action but no explicit indication from the storyteller on how the action is to be evaluated. Gary Yamasaki argues that in these cases we are receiving cryptic guidance from the author through the narrative technique of point-of-view. In such cases the methodology of Perspective Criticism may be applied to reveal this abstruse guidance. Gary Yamasaki provides a series of frames of analysis within the theory of Perspective Criticism which may be applied to biblical stories: the spatial, psychological, informational, temporal, phraseological, and ideological perspectives. Because the majority of the point-of-view devices found in biblical narratives are also used in cinematic storytelling, the book includes accessible analyses of film scenes, providing pop-culture illustrations of the workings of the point-of-view perspective. Gary Yamasaki concludes by applying his method to two case studies: the New Testament story of Gamaliel, and the Old Testament story of Gideon. In his work Yamasaki creates a valuable foundation for the deeper understanding of biblical narrative, a gift to anyone who has struggled with the concealed messages that should be divined in biblical point-of-view narratives.
Readers in History
Author: James L. MachorPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801844379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Nineteenth-century America witnesses an unprecedented rise in reading activity as a result of increasing literacy, advances in printing and book production, and improvements in transporting printed material. As the act of reading took on new cultural and intellectual significance, American writers had to adjust to changes in their relationship with a growing audience. Calling for a new emphasis on historical analysis, Readers in History reconsiders reader-response and reception approaches to the shifting contexts of reading in nineteenth-century America. James L. Machor and his contirbutors dispute the "essentializing tendency" of much reader-response criticism to date, arguing that reading and the textual construction of audience can best be understood in light of historically specific interpretive practices, ideological frames, and social conditions. Employing a variety of perspectives and methods—including feminism, deconstruction, and cultural criticsim—the essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of historical inquiry for exploring the dynamics of audience engagement.
Literature and the Brain
Author: Norman Norwood HollandPublisher: PsyArt Foundation
ISBN: 057801839X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when it explains the different ways our brains convert stories, poems, plays, and films into pleasure. When we are deep into a film or book, we find ourselves "absorbed," unaware of our bodies or our surroundings. We don't doubt the existence of Spider-Man or Harry Potter, and we have real feelings about these purely imaginary beings. Our brains are behaving oddly, because we know we cannot act to change what we are seeing. This is only one of the special ways our brains behave to with literature, ways that LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN reveals. 474 pp. 13 ill.
The Dynamics of Narrative Form
Author: John PierPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110922649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
By redefining established topics of narratology, research has become highly diversified. The contributions to this volume neither synthesize developments nor work from shared postulates, but represent a fresh look at ongoing issues. Some scrutinize focalisation in a linguistic framework or in a poststructuralist vein; others take on reliable and unreliable narration in a pronominal perspective or the "unaddressed" reader who upsets the tidy schemes of narrative communication. Also outlined are a possible worlds approach to narrative time, a systematic treatment of metanarrative and a transgeneric application of narratology to poetry. The sequential ordering of narratives as a way of controlling reader response is examined in one article and in another is seen to elicit intertextual configurations. Both divergent and complementary, the contributions seek to integrate into narratological categories and methods the dynamic processes of narrative itself.
Psychonarratology
Author: Marisa BortolussiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521009133
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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The Critical I
Author: Norman Norwood HollandPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231076517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Asserting that literary theory needs a dose of common sense, this treatise attacks Saussurean linguistics as outmoded and discredited in its elimination of its subjects. It claims that postmodernist ideas of the individual rest on false linguistic and psychological premises.
Women Write Back
Author: Stephanie Mathilde HilgerPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042025786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaire's Mahomet, Johnson's Rasselas, Goethe's Werther, and Rousseau's Julie. The analysis of these women's texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.