Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works

by R. M. Lumiansky
Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works
Author: R. M. Lumiansky
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512804142
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In each of these six essays, treating the greatest literary accomplishments of medieval and renaissance England, the author is concerned with the literary work as a whole and with a survey of recent critical approaches to it. Beowulf, by R. E. Kaske; The Canterbury Tales, by Richard L. Hoffman; Le Morte Darthur, by Larry D. Benson; The Faerie Queen, by A. C. Ham­ilton, King Lear, by Ernest William Talbert; and Paradise Lost, by Irene Samuel.

Critical Approaches to Young Adult Literature

by Kathy Howard Latrobe
Critical Approaches to Young Adult Literature
Author: Kathy Howard Latrobe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:
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Explores various facets of creating a vibrant YA reading community such as inquiry-based learning, promoting and motivating reading, collection management, understanding multiple intelligences, accepting diverse beliefs, and acting as a change agent to name a few.

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

by Wilfred L. Guerin
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature
Author: Wilfred L. Guerin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:
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Using classic works such as To His Coy Mistress, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, Young Goodman Brown, Everyday Use, and Frankenstein as tools to introduce students to various critical theories, this book demonstrates how different approaches to an array of readings enrich the total response to and understanding of the individual work.

Literary Theory

by Michael Ryan
Literary Theory
Author: Michael Ryan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119090024
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Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the full range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies. Introduces students to a variety of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture Demonstrates how the varying perspectives on texts can lead to different interpretations of the same work Features numerous updates that include new literary texts, new and expanded sections Represents the ideal accompaniment to the upcoming Third Edition of Literary Theory: An Anthology

Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England

by E. Scala
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England
Author: E. Scala
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2002-08-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230107567
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Absent Narratives is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain -poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these absent narratives prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways. Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written.

Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature

by Lawrence Besserman
Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature
Author: Lawrence Besserman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136597158
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This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate biblical paradigms to express secular themes, and vice versa. Codicological, psychoanalytic, feminist, and new historicist insights inform readings of Beowulf, Middle English lyric poetry, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Malory, among others. Besserman elucidates the structural and thematic complexity of the integration of biblical and biblically derived sacred diction, imagery, character types, and themes in the works under consideration, identifying within them new biblical sources and analogues and providing fresh insights into the contextual meaning and significance of the biblical paradigms they deploy. This book highlights the shaping influence of biblical and biblically derived sacred paradigms on exemplary literature produced in the middle Ages.

A Critical Companion to Beowulf

by Andy Orchard
A Critical Companion to Beowulf
Author: Andy Orchard
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2003
Genre: Beowulf
ISBN: 9781843840299
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This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both major and minor, are assessed.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

by George Watson
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1974-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521200042
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.