Product Description: The objective of this book is to present a dialectical framework within which to reread Jane Austen’s novels and to counter the critical dichotomy between a ‘conservative’ Jane (proposed by the containment school of critics) and a ‘radical’ Austen (proposed by the subversive school of critics)...read more

Product Description: Expanded edition. The second half of the twentieth century was one of the most active and provocative periods in the long history of textual criticism. This series of six critical essays surveys theoretical writings in the field from 1950 to 2000 and more than doubles the size of the 1987 edition...read more

Product Description: In these inventive and genre-bending critical essays, Gerry Brenner provides fresh interpretations of classic literary works by empowering significant characters to represent themselves as legitimate readers with strong responses...read more

Product Description: Despite the somewhat different features of English as it developed in those places, a persistent genetic identity exists that is best understood as Romantic. More particularly, Wordsworth's writings, and a cluster of ideas, images, and attitudes associated with him, exerted a normative pressure on curriculum and pedagogy during the 19th-century emergence of the university and literature as we know them today...read more

Product Description: This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics, and aesthetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An eminent scholar's guide to hearing poets' workWhen we listen to the words of a poet in the theater, or read them silently on the page, what is it that we hear? How do such crafty writers as Shakespeare or Donne, Wyatt or Yeats, Wordsworth or Lowell arrange their rhythms to make their poetry more expressive? A gathering of perceptive essays written over twenty-five years, this book by a distinguished scholar and poet helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This latest book from the well-known literary critic Robert Scholes presents his thoughtful exploration of the craft of reading. He deals with reading not as an art or performance given by a virtuoso reader, but as a craft that can be studied, taught, and learned...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this companion volume to Romantic Confusions of the Good (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), distinguished scholar Marion Montgomery continues his exploration of Romantic poetry, including that of Eliot, Pound, Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, and Williams, from a Thomistic perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lengthy experts from twentieth-century criticism of the principal British and American authors from the Middle Ages to the end of the Victorian era (view table of contents)

Product Description: With the canon debate, prominent in literary criticism since the early 1970s, as the sounding board, the study aims at investigating and discussing in critical perspective the function of considerations to do with canon for literary criticism at the formation stage...read more

Product Description: "Epizia" is a stage adaptation of Ecatommiti, volume VIII, chapter five, Giraldi's tale of an errant Governor of Innsbruck, who gets the virginal heroine to his bed with a false offer of marriage and an equally false promise to let her imprisoned brother out of gaol...read more

Product Description: This volume contains 32 essays which deal with modern trends in criticism in American and English literary and linguistic studies.

Product Description: Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice in an accessible way...read more

Product Description: The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies...read more

Excerpts from the works of critics, from contemporaries of the authors covered through those of the Victorian era

Excerpts from the works of critics, from contemporaries of the authors covered through those of the Victorian era

Lengthy experts from twentieth-century criticism of the principal British and American authors from the Middle Ages to the end of the Victorian era

Excerpts from the works of critics, from contemporaries of the authors covered through those of the Victorian era