This comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of academics.
New Approach to Literary Theory and Criticism
As Wilson acknowledges, “Biology is almost unimaginably more complex than physics, and the arts equivalently more complex than biology” ... But they nourish faint hope of predicting—as opposed to explaining and reconstructing ...
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present.
The study of the combination of linguistic structures at various levels is , then , according to Halliday , formal and linguistic . But " cohesion " should be regarded in a more general way — not as a limited abstraction from particular ...
In the second case, understanding historical context can also help readers to understand a classic work of literature better: knowing what a mead-hall is and its importance to medieval society, for example, will help us to understand ...
Thus, for example, R.S. Crane argues in an essay first published in 1935 that literary history is essentially part of 'the general history of culture' (Crane 1967, 20), while a 'program of literary studies based on criticism' would ...
She is the author of The New Man, Masculinity, and Marriage in the Victorian Novel (2015) and co-editor of Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers (2014). She has published numerous articles on Victorian literature, gender, ...
The book is a history of Western literary criticism and a general introduction to the subject of literary criticism and theory.
It attempts, in its particular ways, to capture its share of social energy; this will bring it into a position of competition with or even opposition to official authorities. Hence, in the article just quoted, Greenblatt remarks ...