Practising Theory and Reading Literature
Title | Practising Theory and Reading Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Raman Selden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134962665 |
Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.
Practising Theory and Reading Literature
Title | Practising Theory and Reading Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Raman Selden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134962738 |
Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.
Practicing Theory and Reading Literature
Title | Practicing Theory and Reading Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Raman Selden |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1989-07-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780813101910 |
" A clear and accessible demonstration of how contemporary literary theories can be applied to a wide range of texts, from Shakespeare, Bunyan, Sterne, Keats, to James, Stevens, Joyce, Pinter, Updike, and Arthur Miller."
Literary Criticism
Title | Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Bressler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The second edition of Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler is designed to help readers make conscious, informed, and intelligent choices concerning literary interpretation. By explaining the historical development and theoretical positions of eleven schools of criticism, author Charles Bressler reveals the richness of literary texts along with the various interpretative approaches that will lead to a fuller appreciation and understanding of such texts.
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
Title | A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Raman Selden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.
Theory in Practice
Title | Theory in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Argyris |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1992-04-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1555424465 |
"This book is a landmark in two fields. It is a practical guide tothe reform of professional education. It is also a beacon totheoretical thinking about human organizations, about theirinterdepAndence with the social structure of the professions, andabout theory in practice." -- Journal of Higher Education
Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Title | Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Johnson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2013-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 022601584X |
Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.