Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

Helen Gardner is a vigorous and eloquent champion of traditional literary values. These values have been subverted, she feels, by some of the ablest of modern academics and by prevalent tendencies in criticism and teaching today. She discusses the new schools of criticism which exalt the sometimes unintelligible theorist above the creator of the work of art, the imaginative interpreter of life, or which replace the authority of the author with that of the reader. She regrets the tendency of teachers to emphasize contemporary literature to the neglect of the great writings of the past and...

This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial "compositions"verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematicof the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book s geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postwar cultural hegemony throughout what was once referred to as "the free world."

The works and the artists Miller takes up are those of the so-called...

This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial "compositions"verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematicof the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book s geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postwar cultural hegemony throughout what was once referred to as "the free world."

The works and the artists Miller takes up are those of the so-called...

This volume examines the connection between catastrophe and memory, using examples from German-language, French, Italian, English, North American, Spanish-language and Hungarian literature. The essays seek to explore the theoretical roots of this interrelationship and to illustrate it through exemplary case presentations.

Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.

The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe's 'Other', are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies.

Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of criticism, Postcolonial Conrad not only presents fresh readings of his novels of imperialism, but also maps and analyzes the interpretative tradition...