This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts which emphasize their relation to literary history and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which take into account developments in structuralism and postmodernism. Texts include poems by Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Hopkins, Browning,...
This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms wh...
Since the early 1960s the academic certainties of traditional literary studies have been challenged by techniques and perspectives borrowed from other disciplines. And this so-called crisis in English studies is now being complicated by the recent changes in the institutional structure of education. This collection provides an overview of how critical theory operates in practice and a guide to the state of theory today. Topics discussed include: gender, race, the gothic, the value of student theory guides, and the impact of theory on teaching practice, and the future for theory in our...
Since the early 1960s the academic certainties of traditional literary studies have been challenged by techniques and perspectives borrowed from other...
Since the early 1960s the academic certainties of 'traditional' literary studies have been challenged by techniques and perspectives borrowed from other disciplies. And this so-called 'crisis' in English studies is now being complicated by the recent changes in the institutional structure of education. This timely collection provides an overview of how critical theory operates in practice and an indispensable guide to The State of Theory today. Topic discussed include: gender, race, the gothic, the value of student 'theory guides', and the impact of theory on teaching practice and...
Since the early 1960s the academic certainties of 'traditional' literary studies have been challenged by techniques and perspectives borrowed from oth...
In this study, Bradford reasserts the value of Roman Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal for the sweep of Jakobson's career. Bradford re-establishes Jakobson's work as vital to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetry. By exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object of language, new reading of his work is offered which includes the most radical elements of modernism. This book is aimed at students of Jakobson, and those interested in the development of critical...
In this study, Bradford reasserts the value of Roman Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical theory and provi...
In Roman Jakobson Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal the sweep of Jakobson's career. Bradford re-establishes Jakobson's work as vital to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetry. By exploring Jakobson's thesis that poetry is the primary object language, Roman Jakobson: Life, Language, Art offers a new reading of his work which includes the most radical elements of modernism. This book will be invaluable to students of...
In Roman Jakobson Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical th...
Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines: * the terminology of literary form * how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century * the role of stylistics in twentieth century criticism * the discipline of stylistics from classical rhetoric to post-structuralism * the relationship between literary style and its historical context * style...
Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a b...
There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have dragged their way through Paradise Lost, Richard Bradford brings Milton to life with an overview of his life, contexts, work and the relationship between these, and of the main critical issues surrounding his work.
There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every...
Since the 1950s Kingsley Amis has been one o f the most popular novelists in Britain. This addition to th e Writers and Their Work series aims to show readers the rea l Amis '
Since the 1950s Kingsley Amis has been one o f the most popular novelists in Britain. This addition to th e Writers and Their Work series aims to show...
June, 1775 found Fort Bennett on the Ohio River under heavy attack by a combined force of British soldiers and various Indian tribes. After the battle raged 5 days, the Fort was defeated and about 150 settlers were massacred. When the U.S. Government devloped a time machine, they set Agent Jim Slater back to 1775 with modern weapons to alter the outcome of the battle. In doing so, he ran into many things he hadn't planned on, one being falling in love. Since the story has a time machine, it puts it in the catagory of fiction, but some of the places and people contained are and were very real.
June, 1775 found Fort Bennett on the Ohio River under heavy attack by a combined force of British soldiers and various Indian tribes. After the battle...
'Concrete', 'pattern' or 'shaped' poems are well documented as experimental curiosities. While giving some attention to this sub-genre the book shifts the focus to the ways in which visual form manifests itself in 'traditional' verse, examining poems by Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, Olson, T.E. Hulme, Auden, Williams, Larkin and Charles Tomlinson. It examines how the tactile presence of the poem on the page transcends the routine distinctions between genre and historical context, emerging as a significant but largely unexamined contribution to modernist poetics. The interpretative methodology...
'Concrete', 'pattern' or 'shaped' poems are well documented as experimental curiosities. While giving some attention to this sub-genre the book shi...
