Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works

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

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. HamĀ­ilton, King Lear, by Ernest William Talbert; and Paradise Lost, by Irene Samuel.

Shakespeare Studies Today

Shakespeare Studies Today
Author: E. Pechter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-06-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230119360

The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
Author: James James Lowry Clifford
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1970-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781452911564

Ethnic and Racial Studies Today

Ethnic and Racial Studies Today
Author: Martin Bulmer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136283803

This important collection addresses recent developments in the teaching, studying and presentation of race across many disciplines, including sociology, politics, social geography, cultural studies and philosophy. Drawing on the latest research in all these areas, the authors provide a comprehensive account of key controversies and debates and pinpoint new directions in research and scholarship that are likely to shape the study of race and ethnicity well into the next century.

Shakespeare's History Plays

Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Neema Parvini
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN: 147442354X

Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays

Shakespeare's Moral Compass

Shakespeare's Moral Compass
Author: Neema Parvini
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474432891

Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.

English Literature, 1660-1800

English Literature, 1660-1800
Author: Curt Arno Zimansky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400871948

The Philological Quarterly's annual bibliographies of modern studies in English neoclassical literature, published originally from 1961 to 1970, are reproduced in two volumes. Readers will find the same features that distinguished earlier compilations in the series: inclusive listing of significant works published in each year (including sections on the historical and cultural background as well as literature), authoritative reviews of important works, critical comments, and a full index that is in itself an indispensable reference tool. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.