Author: Charles Mills Gayley
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Author: Charles Mills Gayley
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: Charles Mills Gayley
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Author: Caius Dobrescu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781547380
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Author: Charles Wells Moulton
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Author: Mark Bauerlein
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812203875
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as substitutes for information and logic. Thus by labeling a set of ideas an "ideology" they avoid specifying those ideas, or by saying that someone "essentializes" a concept they convey the air of decisive refutation. As long as a paper is generously sprinkled with the right words, clarification is deemed superfluous. Bauerlein contends that such usages only serve to signal political commitments, prove membership in subgroups, or appeal to editors and tenure committees, and that current textual practices are inadequate to the study of culture and politics they presume to undertake. His book discusses 23 commonly encountered terms—from "deconstruction" and "gender" to "problematize" and "rethink"—and offers a diagnosis of contemporary criticism through their analysis. He examines the motives behind their usage and the circumstances under which they arose and tells why they continue to flourish. A self-styled "handbook of counterdisciplinary usage," Literary Criticism: An Autopsy shows how the use of illogical, unsound, or inconsistent terms has brought about a breakdown in disciplinary focus. It is an insightful and entertaining work that challenges scholars to reconsider their choice of words—and to eliminate many from critical inquiry altogether.
Author: Yamin Hu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429826842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country's academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory while identifying the intricate historical sources of these terms and analyzing their relevance to other disciplines and ideas. The result shows how these words function as heterogeneous cultural contexts in the complexity of experience but also how they function within the context of Chinese culture as well as Chinese literature and criticism. In this volume, the editors focus on discouse, text, narrative, literariness and irony from the perspectives of etymology, documentation, meanings and other core factors. Students of literature and languages, and especially Chinese literature, will benefit from this two-volume set.
