Author: Ian F. Roe
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: criticism, literary, perspective, century, grillparzer, franz
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1995-08-13
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 157113008X
ISBN-13: 9781571130082
Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872) was the leading Austrian dramatist of the nineteenth century; his plays were and are frequently performed at the famous Burgtheater in Vienna. However, his works have always eluded easy definition; he himself acknowledged that his plays were shaped by many different literary influences. Critics agree only that he is a fascinating synthesis of contrasting elements, and recently the modern aspects of his work have been stressed, such as his questioning of moral absolutes and his refusal to offer easy solutions. The psychological realism of his character portrayal an
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: criticism, vol, classical, literary, history, cambridge
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1993-08-27
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521317177
ISBN-13: 9780521317177
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A.D. 325. This first survey examines the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece, including the functions of poetry and the role of poets in early Greek society, and continues with authoritative discussion of the critical writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic scholars. It examines Roman figures including Horace, Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus, and also considers Greek critics of the Augustan and imperial periods such as Longinus, and the neo-platonic, Chr
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: criticism, blackwell, guides, guide, histories, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-10-24
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0631220089
ISBN-13: 9780631220084
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: criticism, blackwell, guides, guide, comedies, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-10-17
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0631220127
ISBN-13: 9780631220121
Criticism of Shakespeare’s comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted and festive qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and their social resonances. This volume introduces the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language, and performance. The Guide serves students of Shakespeare in two ways. Firstly, by presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies, it provides an up-to-date compendium of current scholarship. All the articles are contextualised with brief critic
Author: Andrew C. Wisely
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: criticism, literary, perspective, century, schnitzler, twentieth, arthur
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571130888
ISBN-13: 9781571130884
Schnitzler, one of the most prolific Austrian writers of the 20th century, ruthlessly dissected his society’s erotic posturing and phobias about sex and death. His most penetrating analyses include Lieutenant Gustl, the first stream-of-consciousness novella in German; Reigen, a devastating cycle of one-acts mapping the social limits of a sexual daisy-chain; and Der Weg ins Freie, a novel that combines a love story with a discussion of the roadblocks facing Austria’s Jews. Today, his popularity is reflected by new editions and translations and by adaptations for theater, television,
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: criticism, blackwell, guides, guide, tragedies, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-10-03
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0631220100
ISBN-13: 9780631220107
Navigating the sea of published commentary on Shakespeare’s tragedies can be difficult. This book guides students through the key critical debates from the sixteenth century to the present day, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire. The Guide presents fourteen recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies, including pieces by Jonathan Dollimore, Cora Kaplan, Frank Kermode and Richard Wilson. Seven key areas of debate are covered: genre, character, language, gender and sexuality, history and politics, texts and performance. All the articl
Author: Josephine M. Guy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: criticism, historical, intentions, soul, man, volume, works, oscar, wilde, complete
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0198119615
ISBN-13: 9780198119616
Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde’s major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the ’The Decay of Lyi
