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Author: Edward Larrissy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521642729 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 266
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The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and ideological abstractions of literary theory to the thematic and formal preoccupations of contemporary fiction and poetry. Though the precise meaning of the Romantic legacy is contested, it remains stubbornly difficult to move beyond. This collection of essays by prominent critics and literary theorists was first published in 1999, and explores the continuing impact of Romanticism on a variety of authors and genres, including John Barth, William Gibson, and John Ashbery, while writers from the Romantic and Victorian period include Wordsworth, Byron and Emily Brontë. Many critics have assumed that the forms and modes of feeling associated with the Romantic period continued to influence the cultural history of the the first half of the twentieth century. This was the first book to consider the mutual impact of postmodernism and Romanticism.
Author: Edward Larrissy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521642729 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and ideological abstractions of literary theory to the thematic and formal preoccupations of contemporary fiction and poetry. Though the precise meaning of the Romantic legacy is contested, it remains stubbornly difficult to move beyond. This collection of essays by prominent critics and literary theorists was first published in 1999, and explores the continuing impact of Romanticism on a variety of authors and genres, including John Barth, William Gibson, and John Ashbery, while writers from the Romantic and Victorian period include Wordsworth, Byron and Emily Brontë. Many critics have assumed that the forms and modes of feeling associated with the Romantic period continued to influence the cultural history of the the first half of the twentieth century. This was the first book to consider the mutual impact of postmodernism and Romanticism.
Author: Alsen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900465898X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.
Author: Martin Travers Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0826439608 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 369
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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism is an anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of recent European literature. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school of movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism though to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism. These texts are approached both on their own terms as individual formulations of the goals and procedures (literary, aesthetic and political) that characterized the work of these writers, and as key documents of the literary school or movement to which these writers belonged.
Author: Deborah Cogan Thacker Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134629753 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 210
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Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by the children's literature of the time. Each section begins with a general chapter, which explains the relationship between the major issues of each literary period and the formal and thematic qualities of children's texts. Close readings of selected texts follow to demonstrate the key defining characteristics of the form of writing and the literary movements. Original in its approach, this book sets children's literature within the context of literary movements and adult literature. It is essential reading for students studying writing for children. Books discussed include: *Louisa May Alcott's Little Women * Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies *Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland *Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz *Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden *P.L.Travers' Mary Poppins *E.B.White's Charlotte's Web *Philip Pullman's Clockwork.
Author: Richard Kearney Publisher: Blackwell Publishing ISBN: 9780631216117 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 476
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This comprehensive anthology provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in continental aesthetics. Extending from romanticism through modernism to postmodernism, the volume includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including works by Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lukács, Habermas, Foucault, Kristeva, and Derrida. The range and significance of the primary sources presented, together with the editors' introductions, make this volume essential for anyone interested in aesthetics or philosophy of art.
Author: Gargi Bhattacharya Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781541105935 Category : Languages : en Pages : 282
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This book presents the emotions of Romantic age in post modern techniques like open-ended works. Readers' responses are prioritized over the writers'; artifact. An individual is created by his/her environment and must adhere to certain social norms. This necessitates the creation of a 'persona' where the real self remains unexplored. Ashbery and other contemporary poets like Charles Bernstein & John Fitzgerald unravel the multiple layers of the mind (conscious, subconscious & the unconscious) to manifest the hidden feelings and emotions. Describing the real self is challenging if not impossible, the poets often imply that they want to describe something but is thwarted in the process. Words, socially accepted and understood are inadequate to describe the feelings in the deep recesses of the mind. The quoted texts from the works of the contemporary American poets tell about the complex ways in which our mind functions. The second chapter narrates how Ashbery combines the heart of a Romantic with the mind of a postmodernist. Many poems of Ashbery echo the essence of Romantics like Wordsworth or Shelley. The opening lines of Ashbery's poem 'Aclove, ' in Planisphere (2009): "Is it possible that spring could be/ once more approaching?" echoes at Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind, ' where the poet apprehends the arrival of spring: "if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" The third chapter of the book ruminates on the essential similarities between 'action painting' and contemporary poetry. Abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock often present works of art which allows complete freedom to the artist and are open to the multiple interpretations of the viewers. An attempt is made to capture the process of creating an art work. Most of the postmodern works of art focus on 'how' it is created instead of a tidy final product. The process of creation is one of the important themes in Ashbery's award winning work, 'Self -portrait in a Convex Mirror.' The thought process including the distractions are manifest in the poem. The fourth chapter discusses the language movement and the writings of Charles Bernstein with other contemporaries. Systematic derangement of language like abolition of prepositions or composing an entire piece of writing comprising solely of prepositional phrases, rewriting any other work, adding gerund to every line are some of the experiments done by contemporary Language Poets. They capture the thoughts in their nascent states and alter the forms of the moment perceived. The book examines the process of experimentation and new techniques of writing as well. The aim is to draw the readers' attention to the contemporary developments in American literature. This will definitely boost the inquisitiveness of the readers who have a penchant to explore the process of creation.
Author: Diane Elam Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000639339 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 273
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By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature’s most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history. Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism’s divided relation to modernism and romance’s difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.
Author: Carmen Casaliggi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136273492 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 318
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This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The authors consider the changing notion of Romanticism, looking at the diversity of its writers, the applicability of the term, and the ways in which Romanticism has been reconstituted. The chapters cover relevant historical periods and literary trends, including the Romantic Gothic, the Victorian era, and Modernism as part of a dialectical response to the Romantic legacy. Contributors also examine how Romanticism has been reconstituted within postmodern and postcolonial literature as both a reassessment of the Modernist critique and of the imperial contexts that have throughout this time-frame underpinned the Romantic legacy, bringing into focus the contemporaneity of Romanticism and its political legacy. This collection reveals the diversity and continuing relevance of the genre in new and exciting ways, offering insights into writers such as Browning, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Lewis, MacNeice, and Auster.
Author: Christian Quendler Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated ISBN: 9783631367186 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 182
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This study represents a comparison between two radical gestures of literary self-reflexivity: romantic irony and postmodernist metafiction. It examines the impact of early German romantic theory and its central concept of irony on German and English romantic narrative fiction and relates the same to postmodernist self-reflexive novels, including its British and American variants. A primary objective of this comparison is to account for the radical skepticism that postmodernist metafiction voices with respect to the paramount philosophical question of truth and reality. The immanent tension between an absolute idealistic and a radically skeptic position which romantic irony articulates and enacts is conceived of as an important and instructive link to the understanding of postmodernism.
Author: Edward Larrissy
Author: Edward Larrissy
Author: Harry Raphael Garvin
Author: Alsen
Author: Martin Travers
Author: Deborah Cogan Thacker
Author: Richard Kearney
Author: Gargi Bhattacharya
Author: Diane Elam
Author: Carmen Casaliggi
Author: Christian Quendler