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| | Literary criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The literary criticism of the Renaissance developed classical ideas of unity of form and content into a literary neoclassicism which proclaimed literature to be central to culture and entrusted the poet or author with the preservation of a long literary tradition. | | | Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. | | | Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism
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| | Literary criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The literary criticism of the Renaissance developed classical ideas of unity of form and content into a literary neoclassicism which proclaimed literature to be central to culture and entrusted the poet or author with the preservation of a long literary tradition. | | | Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. | | | Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism
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| | Literary theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Psychoanalysis (see psychoanalytic literary criticism) - Explores the role of the subconscious in literature including that of the author, reader, and characters in the text | | | Specific theories are distinguished not only by their methods and conclusions, but even by how they define a "text." For some scholars of literature, "texts" means "books belonging to the Western literary canon". | | | The New Criticism was the first school to disavow the role of the author in interpreting texts, preferring to focus on "the text itself" in a close reading. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory
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| | 1993 Project: Marxist Criticism |
| | Marxist literary criticism may be thought of as a reaction to many of the rigid theories of the New Critics. | | | Marxist literary criticism is based upon the political and economic theories of the German philosopher Karl Marx. | | | There is a great deal of difference in opinion among Marxist literary critics concerning the relationship between ideology and literature. |
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http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/marxist.html
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: James T. Farrell |
| | At the risk of alienating himself from the majority of the American left, Farrell not only retained his principles but also articulated his views in the infamous book, A note on Literary Criticism, in which he described two types of the American Marxist character and aligned himself with Trotsky. | | | Many critics of Farrell’s day dismissed his work as artless and non-literary, largely because he was writing directly from experience and within the vein of nineteenth century Realism and Naturalism. | | | James T. Farrell was an Irish-American writer whose literary corpus is nearly impossible to fully document, owing to the range of his interests, the diversity of his publishing venues, and his ability to write prolifically over the span of five decades. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1487
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| | Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: A Look at the Literary Criticism of Mary Barton |
| | While some literary critics argue Julius Caesar should actually be The Tragedy of Brutus, literary critics of Mary Barton argue the novel should actually be called John Barton; which was the actual title Gaskell wanted to use before publishers persuade her to change it to Mary Barton. | | | Literary critics are also concerned with not only the heavy borrowing of other published stories, but that Gaskell, on multiple occasions, misquotes or draws errant conclusions from these texts. | | | Critics argue that the book is actually about John Barton and the story of Mary Barton weakens the novel because it distracts the reader from the tragedy of John Barton (Schor 13). |
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http://students.uwsp.edu/tcedo167/thumbs.htm
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| | socialism and democracy |
| | Although West continues by making the disclaimer that "the weakness of the book cannot be satisfactorily discussed in terms of literary style alone,"28 relating literary value instead to the novel's social relevance, his argument nonetheless rests on a critique of the formalistic preoccupations of both Heslop's and Joyce's work. | | | Caudwell drew another revealing literary parallel with what he described as the "Crisis in Physics," to which he also devoted a separate study.33 Here he argued that modernism in literature was similar to the displacement of Newtonian physics by the theory of relativity. | | | But the argument here is that their critical writings represent no mere historical curiosities, but contain much that is of value in the debate about literature and politics which still faces us today. |
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http://www.sdonline.org/32/marxist_critics.htm
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| | Finding Literary Criticism: What Is Literary Criticism? |
| | Literary criticism may be positive or negative, or a mixture of both. | | | The different standards, or criteria, by which literary critics have judged works of literature have led to the development of various schools or varieties of literary criticism. | | | Views a literary work as an imitation or reflection of the world and human life; applies the criterion of "truth" to the subject matter which the work represents. |
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http://www.wcsu.edu/library/finding_lit_crit_whatis.html
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| | marxist views of literature |
| | The English Marxist Terry Eagleton took over the Althussian view that literary criticism should become a science, but rejected the hope that literature could distance itself from ideology. | | | Absurd discontinuities of discourse, the pared-down characterization, the plotless depiction of aimless lives — all these are needed to shake audiences from the comfortable notion that the horrors and degradations of the twentieth century have left the world unchanged. | | | The Rumanian critic Lucien Goldman used Structuralist ideas in his study of Racine's tragedies, finding similarities of form between the tragedies, Jansenism and the French nobility. |
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http://www.textetc.com/theory/marxist-views.html
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| | [Glossary] |
| | Marxist Literary Criticism—A diverse school of criticism whose basic aims are to examine the hidden content of a literary work and to relate that content to ideas of social processes such as class struggle or the progression of society through various historical stages. | | | Structuralist Literary Criticism—Focused on analyzing (mainly) prose narratives with an eye towards relating the text to the conventions of a particular literary genre, a network of intertextual connections, a projected model of an underlying universal narrative structure, or a notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs. | | | He argued that literary texts embodied plural discourses and were inexhaustible fabrics of signifiers. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/pacificasia/PACI392/Glossary/Glossary.html
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| | Crumb Library Guide - Literary Criticism |
| | Library of literary criticism of English and American authors through the beginning of the twentieth century. | | | Psychoanalytic literary criticism Use: Psychoanalysis and literature 54 rec. | | | The Critical temper; a survey of modern criticism on English and American literature from the beginnings to the twentieth century. |
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http://www.potsdam.edu/library/Guides/LiteraryCriticism.html
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| | Tom Lewis: "Philosophical Realism & the Aesthetic in Michael Sprinker's Literary Criticism" |
| | Along with the necessity of philosophical realism as a condition for effective marxist literary criticism, the other lesson I learned--not only from Michael, but in substantial measure from him--was the importance of emphasizing the cognitive role of literature and art, while not neglecting ideological critique. | | | Rather, it is the Marxist critic who produces such knowledge by analyzing the symptomatic distance revealed between the formal structure of the literary work and the formal structure of the ideological materials that the literary work appropriates. | | | Critical realists do not deny the reality of events and discourses; on the contrary, they insist upon them. |
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http://eserver.org/clogic/3-1&2/lewis.html
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| | Literary theory - Psychology Central |
| | Psychoanalysis (see psychoanalytic literary criticism) - Explores the role of the subconscious in literature including that of the author, reader, and characters in the text | | | Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. | | | The theory and criticism of literature are, of course, also closely tied to the history of literature. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Literary_theory
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| | Norman N. Holland, The Mind and the Book |
| | Literary criticism, any kind of criticism, rests on the purpose of literature itself, for, after all, criticism is, as the old saying has it, only the handmaiden to the muse. | | | Also, good psychological literary criticism can help us shape and articulate the psychological experience of the writer or the characters to ourselves, to form that psychological experience from the author's words and put it into our own words and our own world of experience. | | | Each of the various schools in the development of psychoanalysis necessarily produces a different style of psychoanalytic literary criticism. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh/mindbook.htm
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| | English 495: Marxist Cultural Theory |
| | The marxist critique of ideology has played an important role in literary studies since the decline of "new criticism" from its position as the hegemonic framework for literary criticism in the U.S. and U.K. beginning in the early 1970's. | | | In its initial break with traditional historiography and New Criticism, this scholarship has been characterized by an interest in the socio-political contexts of literature, by an awareness of the problematic nature of historical contexts, and by a rethinking of the traditional, positivistic assumption that literary texts merely reflect their historical contexts. | | | An important strength of discourse theory is that enables one to treat literary discourse as merely one of a complex ensemble of discourses in a particular social formation. |
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http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/495/ideology.html
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| | Literary Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | These causes converged with early literary feminist practice, characterized by Elaine Showalter as "gynocriticism," which emphasized the study and canonical inclusion of works by female authors as well as the depiction of women in male-authored canonical texts. | | | In one of the earliest developments of literary theory, German "higher criticism" subjected biblical texts to a radical historicizing that broke with traditional scriptural interpretation. | | | The structure of ideas that enables criticism of a literary work may or may not be acknowledged by the critic, and the status of literary theory within the academic discipline of literary studies continues to evolve. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/literary.htm
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| | 'Marxism and the Bible' |
| | For its part, Marxist literary criticism has remained -- rightly, in many cases -- suspicious of anything to do with religion, of which biblical criticism is inevitably understood as a subset. | | | The third aim is to read crucial texts and debates in biblical criticism -- the quests for the historical Israel and Jesus, the constructions of gender and sexuality, the referential function of the text and so on -- in light of Marxist literary criticism. | | | Bloch's relation to biblical criticism is itself a fascinating study. |
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http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/joscci/boer.html
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| | Search Results for 'Literary-criticism' |
| | In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s -- in the first and second waves of feminism -- was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature. | | | Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly. | | | The Chicago school of literary criticism, also known as Neo-Aristotelianism, was developed in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s at the University of Chicago. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/L/Literary-criticism.htm
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| | bmcr-v3n06-ormand-sons.txt |
| | In it Rose applies Marxist literary criticism to six of the most-taught works in Greek literature, focusing specifically on their manipulation of the idea of inherited excellence. | | | Ormand, 'Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece', Bryn Mawr Classical Review v3n06 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v3n06-ormand-sons 3.6.15, Rose, Peter W., Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece. | | | It is often difficult to perceive the relation between much Marxist (and post-Marxist) criticism and what for the sake of simplicity we might call Marxist politics (Rose uses the term "Orthodox Marxism", which seems to me to confuse the issue). |
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http://www.infomotions.com/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v3n06-ormand-sons.txt
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| | In the timeless words of Joseph Addison: "A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation |
| | In misguided attempts to classify and encompass such texts, Critical Theorists have developed such methods such as Marxist literary criticism, Postcolonial literary criticism, Psychoanalytic literary criticism, Semiotic literary criticism, and Hysterical realism, to name a few. | | | In the famous words of Joseph Addison: "A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation." Indeed this has been the dominant philological inclination throughout the development of modern literary theory. | | | Though the established academic circle is blindly content with its progress in the development of supposedly robust feminist theories of literature, female works have, in fact, been improperly interpreted for several centuries. |
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| | Literary Theory |
| | An introduction to literary theory, including traditional literary criticism, formalism and new criticism, Marxism and critical theory, structuralism and poststructuralism, new historicism and cultural materialism, ethnic studies and postcolonial criticism, gender studies and queer theory, and cultural studies. | | | This book brings together over 50 African writers whose lives and literary works have been shaped by the postcolonial experience. | | | A dictionary of critical terms commonly found in literary studies, this work is intended to help students and researchers unfamiliar with the field. |
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http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mdx/bibliogs/LitTheory/litcrit.htm
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| | Applied Hermeneutics |
| | a) Criticism deals primarily with texts, (literary criticism specifically with works of literature), while hermeneutics is not limited to the written word, but deals also with the spoken word, communication between persons, and the apprehension of an actual truth. | | | b) Criticism evaluates "the merit of a text" while hermeneutics does not necessarily take into consideration the literary worth of a text, or the skills of the particular author. | | | a) Both criticism and hermeneutics deal with the "investigation of the origin and accuracy of texts." |
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http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/ahlit1.html
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| | The Valve - A Literary Organ Same Senseless Ramblings, Slightly Bigger Stage, or Intellectual Investments in Jolly Corners |
| | Most literary scholars still adhere to some form of “close reading” at the heart of their methods, despite the fact that many of the basic assumptions of New Criticism have been challenged, despite the fact that New Critical reading practices work best only for small, “well-cooked” (to use Lowell’s terms) verbal objects. | | | I think that’s going to be the final fate of psychological literary criticism —with the obvious proviso that psychology, since it concerns the motivation of people, has a lot more connection to literature than astronomy does. | | | SEK gave us his views, but didn’t pretend to settle the issue, he only asked whether psychoanalysis was useful within literary criticism. |
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http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/same_senseless_ramblings_slightly_bigger_stage_or_intellectual_investments
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| | French Theory and Criticism: 5. 1945-1968 |
| | Such a collapsing of difference was reflected, as well, in the hybridization and crossing over between disciplines such as linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, history, social theory, anthropology, and philosophy. | | | The works of these and other contemporary French thinkers inform theories of the subject, reading and writing practices, and cultural as well as literary studies at the close of the twentieth century. | | | Literary analysis, which had been important for figures such as Bataille, Blanchot, Lacan, Jakobson, and Lévi-Strauss, played a major role in the development of French thought in the 1960s, as can be seen in the journal Tel Quel, begun in the first year of the decade under the direction of a young novelist, Philippe Sollers. |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/french_theory_and_criticism-_5.html
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Decline and Fall of Literary Criticism |
| | ...For all the achievements of the conventional, sturdily commonsensical tradition of literary criticism in England and America, one must admit that on the whole it exhibited a singular lack of curiosity abo.ut the conceptual underpinnings of literature and interpretation... | | | ...As a teacher and critic, I must confess that I have singularly little interest in what any of my literary colleagues might have to say about images of women in advertising, though I might learn a good deal from some of them about Paradise Lost or the novels of Flaubert... | | | ...At this point, there was an understandable appeal in Continental doctrines that categorically denied the privileged status of literary discourse, or, alternatively, that rediscovered the nexus between literature and society, literature and history, at a higher level of analysis than that of the essayistic Anglo-American critics... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V77I3P52-1.htm
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| | Crumb Library Guide - Literary Criticism |
| | Library of literary criticism of English and American authors through the beginning of the twentieth century. | | | Psychoanalytic literary criticism Use: Psychoanalysis and literature 54 rec. | | | To find journal articles about literary critical theory and the history of criticism: |
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http://www.potsdam.edu/library/Guides/LiteraryCriticism.html
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| | Semiotics and Cultural Criticism by Arthur Berger |
| | In literary criticism, for example, we often find that the study of symbolism in texts is connected with an investigation of their mythic elements-what might be called a myth and symbol school of analysis. | | | Many people learn about metaphor in literature classes, where metaphor and simile are described as "figurative" language, and assume that metaphors are used only for poetic or literary purposes. | | | It has been used, as noted above, in criticism of the fine arts, literature, film, and popular fiction as well as in interpreting architecture, in studying fashion, in analyzing facial expression, in interpreting magazine advertisements and radio and television commercials, in medicine, and in many other areas. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~engl5vr/Berger.html
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| | Psychoanalytic Criticism and Teaching Shakespeare |
| | PSYCHOANALYTIC literary criticism focused on Shakespeare did not simply appear early in the development of psychoanalysis but participated in the origins of the movement. | | | And of course, literary criticism itself is no longer under the sway of the New Critical notions of unity and synthesis that meshed so well with Holland's model of the psychologically integrated text. | | | But Freud's preoccupation with Shakespeare and with the problems of literary creation and interpretation endured through his lifetime and manifested itself in a provocative variety of commentaries on a wide range of Shakespeare's plays and poems. |
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http://www.ade.org/ade/bulletin/n087/087019.htm
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| | Essay, Literary Criticism, Literary History and Theory |
| | literary criticism to focus on recent Argentine history such as the 1976 dictatorship and to reclaim lost testimony, interviews and exile literature. | | | Studies existing literary criticism of "Escalas" and editions of the text.] | | | [Literary critic Rama's diary: from his 1974 exile to 1983. |
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http://www.lightlink.com/labs/2002fallcriticism.htm
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| | Journal of Religion and Society |
| | The publication of The Literary Guide to the Bible in 1987 under the editorial direction of Alter and Kermode marked the fact that in the last third of the twentieth century literary criticism had come into its own in Biblical Studies. | | | Although Alter and Kermode deliberately excluded various critical approaches including psychoanalytic criticism from that volume in their attempt "to make possible fuller readings of the text" (4-5), their work demonstrates the increasing validity literary approaches now enjoy in the field of Biblical Studies. | | | Recently, like others in the field of literary criticism, many psychoanalytically inclined scholars have shifted the focus to the reader and away from the text or the author. |
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http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2003/2003-1.html
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