Doing Things with Texts
Title | Doing Things with Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Meyer Howard Abrams |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780393307474 |
"One of the most respected literary scholars alive, . . . Abrams stands for understanding and conciliation, calling for a kind of humanism that can embrace the good in all literary theories." --Washington Post
Mimesis and Theory
Title | Mimesis and Theory PDF eBook |
Author | René Girard |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0804755809 |
Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty previously uncollected essays on literature and literary theory by one of the most important thinkers of the past thirty years.
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction
Title | Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Anne H. Stevens |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2015-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1770485619 |
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory
Title | Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Addison |
Publisher | A H M Publications |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Key Terms in Literary Theory
Title | Key Terms in Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Klages |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826442676 |
Guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable.
Anatomy of Criticism
Title | Anatomy of Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Northrop Frye |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2002-03 |
Genre | Criticism |
ISBN | 9780141187099 |
Literature and Liberty
Title | Literature and Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Mendenhall |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2014-02-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0739186345 |
The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive — in short, wholly inadequate as an instrument for good in an era when we know better than to reduce the variety of human experience to simplistic formulae. A person’s creative and intellectual energies are never completely the products of culture or class. People are rational agents who choose between different courses of action based on their reason, knowledge, and experience. A person’s choices affect lives, circumstances, and communities. Even literary scholars who reject pure Marxism are still motivated by it, because nearly all economic literary theory derives from Marxism or advocates for vast economic interventionism as a solution to social problems. Such interventionism, however, has a track-record of mass murder, war, taxation, colonization, pollution, imprisonment, espionage, and enslavement — things most scholars of imaginative literature deplore. Yet most scholars of imaginative literature remain interventionists. Literature and Liberty offers these scholars an alternative economic paradigm, one that over the course of human history has eliminated more generic bads than any other system. It argues that free market or libertarian literary theory is more humane than any variety of Marxism or interventionism. Just as Marxist historiography can be identified in the use of structuralism and materialist literary theory, so should free-market libertarianism be identifiable in all sorts of literary theory. Literature and Liberty disrupts the near monopolistic control of economic ideas in literary studies and offers a new mode of thinking for those who believe that arts and literature should play a role in discussions about law, politics, government, and economics. Drawing from authors as wide-ranging as Emerson, Shakespeare, E.M. Forster, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Henry Hazlitt, and Mark Twain, Literature and Liberty is a significant contribution to libertarianism and literary studies.