The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

1989
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 790
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521300087
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This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 6, The Nineteenth Century, c.1830–1914

2013-02-07
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 6, The Nineteenth Century, c.1830–1914
Author: M. A. R. Habib
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316175170
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In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range of perspectives, international scholars examine the growth of literary criticism as an institution, and the major critical developments in diverse national traditions and in different genres, as well as the major movements of Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism and Decadence. The History offers a detailed focus on some of the era's great critical figures, such as Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine and Matthew Arnold, and includes essays devoted to the connections of literary criticism with other disciplines in science, the arts and Biblical studies. The publication of this volume marks the completion of the monumental Cambridge History of Literary Criticism from antiquity to the present day.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

2005-12-08
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
Author: H. B. Nisbet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2005-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521317207
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This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.

The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy

1988
The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
Author: C. B. Schmitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 986
Release: 1988
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521397483
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This 1988 Companion offers an account of philosophical thought from the middle of the fourteenth century to the emergence of modern philosophy.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

1989
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521300148
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This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody

1989-11-09
Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody
Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1989-11-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521390149
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Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.

A History of the Harlem Renaissance

2021-02-04
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Rachel Farebrother
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108640508
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The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of 'the New Negro'.

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

2005-01-06
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780
Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 974
Release: 2005-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521781442
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.