Category: Literary Criticism

By Franz Rottensteiner

ISBN-10: 0816491690

ISBN-13: 9780816491698

As a literary style, technology fiction is hard to outline since it comprises even more than area odysseys, intergalactic verbal exchange, and speculations on destiny societies. It has, actually, woke up the mind's eye of a huge diversity of writers, artists, illustrators, and picture makers. The technology Fiction Book provides for the 1st time a guided photograph journey of the realm of SF displaying in a special and fascinating method how far-reaching the style has turn into in the course of its lengthy historical past.

By Hilton Als

ISBN-10: 1936365812

ISBN-13: 9781936365814

White Girls, Hilton Als's first ebook on account that The Women fourteen years in the past, reveals certainly one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving jointly his fantastic analyses of literature, artwork, and tune with fearless insights on race, gender, and heritage. the result's a unprecedented, advanced portrait of “white girls," as Als dubs them—an expansive yet certain class that encompasses figures as diversified as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor.

In items that hairpin among critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, excessive tradition and coffee, the theoretical and the deeply own, Als provides a beautiful portrait of a author when it comes to his topics, and a useful advisor to the tradition of our time.

Literary Awards
Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBT Nonfiction (2014)
National ebook Critics Circle Award Nominee for feedback (2013)

By Roberta Rubenstein

ISBN-10: 1137413662

ISBN-13: 9781137413666

It's a general that writers draw on their own reports in myriad methods. even if, it really is decidedly unusual for writers to reciprocally remodel models in their dating with one another into fiction.

While Doris Lessing was once composing The Golden Notebook through the past due Nineteen Fifties, she was once in detail concerned with Clancy Sigal, then an aspiring American author, in a courting that decisively motivated the literary equipment of either writers. parts of the now-classic The Golden Notebook (1962) and Lessing's Play with a Tiger (1962) have direct assets in her dating with Sigal.

In flip, Clancy Sigal fictionalized Lessing, himself, and others in Zone of the Interior (1976) and The mystery Defector (1992) in addition to in a couple of unpublished items tested for the 1st time by means of Rubenstein.

Focusing heavily on a number of literary modifications of autobiographical fabrics, as mirrored within the oeuvres of those writers, Rubenstein additionally bargains compelling insights into the moral implications of disguised autobiography and roman à clef.

By Jeffrey Meyers

ISBN-10: 0415159237

ISBN-13: 9780415159234

This set contains forty volumes protecting 19th and 20th century eu and American authors. those volumes may be on hand as a whole set, mini boxed units (by topic) or as person volumes.
This moment set compliments the 1st sixty eight quantity set of Critical history released through Routledge in October 1995.

By Ricardo Piglia

Pocas dedicaciones hay tan solitarias como los angeles literatura y –acaso por eso mismo– pocas amistades tan firmes como las que, en ocasiones, se establecen entre escritores. Este libro es el testimonio de l. a. amistad que, a lo largo de muchos años, unió a dos grandes autores, Ricardo Piglia y Juan José Saer: una amistad literaria y un intercambio de impresiones acerca de l. a. obra propia y los angeles del otro. Como cube Piglia en el prólogo: «La amistad establece el modelo de los angeles lectura literaria: cercana, intensa, fuera de todo regulate y de todo interés que no sea l. a. complicidad literaria»; y, sobre el contenido del libro: «Diálogos apasionados, bromas, una maledicencia liviana, gustos tajantes, argumentos arbitrarios, acuerdos instantáneos y diferencias irreductibles.» El libro se compone de cinco diálogos que, entre 1987 y 1999, mantuvieron en diversos ámbitos y foros públicos, casi todos en Buenos Aires. Saer vivía en París, Piglia enseñaba en Princeton (Estados Unidos); cuando coincidían, dejaban de lado lo own para conversar a fondo sobre cuestiones literarias: l. a. herencia de Borges dentro y fuera de Argentina; cómo escribir después de que Joyce, Proust o Kafka parecieran haber agotado todas las posibilidades contemporáneas de los angeles narración; cómo pensar el compromiso político sin caer en el panfleto; cómo articular una tradición nacional sin renunciar a una legítima ambición common; de qué modo cada uno de ellos lee su propia trayectoria, en l. a. que el sustrato argentino se articula con los años de residencia en el extranjero; cuál es el lector excellent de cada uno; qué leen ellos en los angeles obra del otro y de sus coetáneos. Estas y otras cuestiones entrelazan un libro que se lee con l. a. fluidez de una novela y apela al pensamiento con los angeles agudeza de un gran ensayo; un libro que pone al lector a dialogar, en silencio, con dos de las más apasionadas inteligencias que haya dado los angeles literatura en castellano de las últimas décadas. Un testimonio de que hoy –e incluso en ese futuro que propone el título de este libro–, igual que en los textos platónicos de hace veinticinco siglos, es el diálogo, y no el monólogo, l. a. fuente de las principles mejores.

By Len Platt

ISBN-10: 1441113339

ISBN-13: 9781441113337

This name introduces the paintings of James Joyce, the literary, historic and political contexts during which he wrote and his severe reception as much as the current day. James Joyce stands on the vanguard of modernism - a author whose paintings has received a distinct prestige in glossy Western tradition. This e-book bargains an advent to examining and learning Joycean texts and surveys the major contexts - literary, historic, political, philosophical and compositional - which formed and decided them. via picking out and fascinating with Joyce's writing tools and elegance, the e-book opens up ideas and ways for examining his advanced texts. It additionally introduces the serious reception of Joyce and his paintings, from the early structuralist and 'myth' critics, via deconstruction, to fresh advancements together with old feedback and genetic feedback.

By Michael Hofmann

ISBN-10: 0374259968

ISBN-13: 9780374259969

An event with a roving genius of literary criticism

Michael Hofmann—poet, translator, and highbrow vagabond—has verified himself as one of many keenest critics of latest literature. appropriately nestled among the covers of the place have you ever Been?, he bargains a hand to steer us and an encouraging whisper in our ear, best us on a visit via what to learn, tips on how to imagine, and why to love. And whereas those essays endure sharp insights that would aid us revisit writers with a clean eye, also they are a narrative of affection among a reader and his precious books.
within the thirty essays accumulated the following, Hofmann brings his signature wit and sustained severe mastery to a poetic, penetrating, and candid dialogue of the writers and artists of the final hundred years. listed below are the necessary poets with no which modern poetry will be unimaginable—Elizabeth Bishop, “the poets’ poets’ poet,” the “ghostly skill” of Robert Lowell, and the fellow he calls the best English poet considering the fact that Shakespeare, Ted Hughes. yet he additionally illumines the depression of John Berryman and the antics of poetry’s bogeyman, Frederick Seidel.
In essays on paintings which are themselves artworks, Hofmann’s agile and tremendous brain explores a panoply of matters from the mastery of translation to the simplest day task for a poet. What those assorted gemstones proportion are the critic’s insatiable interest and nice allure. the place have you ever Been? is an unmissable trip with literature’s such a lot impossible to resist flaneur.

By Caroline Levine

ISBN-10: 0691160627

ISBN-13: 9780691160627

Types deals a strong new resolution to 1 of the main urgent difficulties dealing with literary, severe, and cultural stories today--how to attach shape to political, social, and ancient context. Caroline Levine argues that types set up not just artworks but additionally political life--and our makes an attempt to grasp either paintings and politics. Inescapable and often troubling, kinds form each element of our event. yet types don't impose their order in any easy manner. a number of shapes, styles, and preparations, overlapping and colliding, generate complicated and unpredictable social landscapes that problem and unsettle traditional analytic versions in literary and cultural studies.

Borrowing the idea that of "affordances" from layout concept, this e-book investigates the categorical ways in which 4 significant forms--wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks--have dependent tradition, politics, and scholarly wisdom throughout sessions, and it proposes intriguing new methods of linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine rereads either formalist and antiformalist theorists, together with Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Mary Poovey, and Judith Butler, and he or she bargains attractive money owed of a variety of items, from medieval convents and smooth topic parks to Sophocles's Antigone and the tv sequence The Wire.

The result's a significantly new state of mind approximately shape for the subsequent iteration and crucial examining for students and scholars around the humanities who needs to strive against with the matter of shape and context.

By Marcie Frank

Novelist, tv character, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is among the such a lot leading edge, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the previous fifty years. In how you can Be an highbrow within the Age of television, Marcie Frank offers a concise creation to Vidal’s existence and paintings as she argues that the twentieth-century shift from print to digital media, relatively television and picture, has not just loomed huge in Vidal’s concept but in addition based his profession. taking a look at Vidal’s prolific
literary output, Frank exhibits how he has mirrored explicitly in this topic at each flip: in essays on politics, his ebook on Hollywood and background, his reports and interviews, and topical tours in the novels. even as, she lines how he has many times crossed the road supposedly setting apart print and digital tradition, might be with extra luck than the other American highbrow. He has written tv serials and screenplays, seemed in videos, and often seemed on tv, such a lot famously in heated arguments with Norman Mailer at the Dick Cavett express and with William F. Buckley in the course of ABC’s assurance of the 1968 Democratic nationwide Convention.

Frank highlights the connections among Vidal’s attitudes towards television, intercourse, and American politics as they've got expert his literary and political writings and reveal appearances. She deftly situates his public personality relating to these of Andy Warhol, Jacqueline Susann, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and others. by way of describing Vidal’s smart maneuvering among diversified media, Frank means that his profession bargains a version to aspiring public intellectuals and a refutation to people who argue that digital media have eviscerated public discourse.

By John Sutherland

ISBN-10: 1861979460

ISBN-13: 9781861979469

It is a e-book approximately books, novels specifically: how they paintings, what they're approximately, what makes them strong or undesirable and the way to speak about them to kindred spirits.People of every age, sessions and nationalities learn novels for far an analogous number of purposes - to flee soreness or hazard, to find the earlier or adventure the long run, to appear into the intimate information of alternative people's lives. in view that classical instances readers were sharing their reports of literature, this present day they typically accomplish that within the context of a ebook staff. utilizing various exemplary texts the best way to learn a singular types a chain of clever conversations, offering readers with new inquiries to ask approximately what they learn and the potential and self assurance to invite these questions. The note 'reading', as we typically use it, is a truly blunt tool. We think it's just like driving a bicycle. you are able to do it (you're literate) otherwise you can't (you're illiterate). actually, analyzing good is sort of as tough as writing good. this can be a type of guidebook on easy methods to do it.