Here this immensely influential 20 year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism.
Here this immensely influential 20 year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that ha...
A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.
A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the...
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric--the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has come to dominate the study of poetry--both of which neglect what is most striking and compelling in the lyric and falsify the long and rich tradition of the lyric in the West. Jonathan Culler explores alternative conceptions offered by this tradition, such as public discourse made authoritative by its rhythmical...
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the L...
Jonathan Culler (nar. 1940) patří v současnosti k nejvýznamnějším americkým literárním teoretikům a vykladačům strukturalistické a poststrukturalistické tradice. Jeho Teorie literatury (orig. 1997) již byla přeložena do řady jazyků a těší se v mnoha zemích značné oblibě, neboť Culler má schopnost velmi kondenzovaně a přitom srozumitelně vyložit i značně obtížné poetologicko-filozofické úvahy. Teorii literatury nechápe nutně jako neměnnou znalost daných a nezpochybnitelných pojmů, regulí a schémat, ale především jako myšlení o literatuře,...
Jonathan Culler (nar. 1940) patří v současnosti k nejvýznamnějším americkým literárním teoretikům a vykladačům strukturalistické a posts...