| 单词 | literary criticism |
| 例句 | “Romanian folk dancing? Aristotelian literary criticism? Or perhaps—Mr. Jankowski—you completed a performance degree on the accordion?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She read constantly and offered, in letters to Etty mostly, her literary criticism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s characteristic of this intelligent but alienating text, which works better as literary criticism than biography, that Bradford feels no need to display any compassion for such a sad, lonely end. Review | Patricia Highsmith’s sordid search for inspiration 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Wahl found a position for Mr. Bonnefoy at the National Center for Scientific Research to write on the New Criticism and the philosophy of literary criticism in the English language. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Simon Russell Beale is fond of describing acting as three-dimensional literary criticism. Nicholas Hytner: With Shakespeare, the play is just a starting point 2013-04-12T09:01:01Z The atlas was what we would now call transdisciplinary: putting art history in dialogue with the fields of archaeology, anthropology, psychology and literary criticism. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z But as you may have heard, this rigorous approach to literary criticism has not brought Americans together. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The book is a unique combination of literary criticism, travelogue and memoir, elegantly and poetically written; you feel sorry when it’s over, like a long-anticipated trip ended too soon. ‘The Trip to Echo Spring’: On the trail of writers and drinking 2014-01-10T21:58:25Z After Rose’s first presentation, a coldly formidable “Profesora” takes him aside to complain that it “was literary criticism or something.” Review | Is it a memoir? Is it a novel? A shadowy writer toys with our expectations 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z As Müller moves into modern times and the post-Gutenberg era, he enhances his cultural history with sociological analysis and literary criticism. Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z There’s no way I can do this justice in text, but it’s essentially five minutes of close-read literary criticism that ends in tears and hysteria. John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Whether the influence is direct or indirect—whether a given literary essay has been influenced by Eliot’s critical brio, or by one who has been influenced by it—literary criticism today everywhere bears his impress. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z I certainly don’t think most modern literary criticism is accessible to a non-academic reader, but this book is older and so it’s written for a generalist, rather than a specialist. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Branching out, I read what was around the house—literary criticism, journalism, contemporary novels, detective fiction—and sure enough, while the feelings these books evoked were different, the structure of the experience was the same. V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, and me: What I learned from reading about their tumultuous relationship 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z An eccentric form of literary criticism, perhaps, but it works, even if you’re not a particular fan of of her subjects. Mid-year musts: The best of 2014 – so far 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Eliot's "The Waste Land," is an analytical blend of journalism, literary criticism and memoir that — like her earlier book, "Uncommon Arrangements," about unconventional literary marriages — tackles a personal obsession. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In 1963 they were collected in Towards a New Novel – for my money, one of the most important works of postwar literary criticism. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z Whether these epiphanies are central to our understanding of Jane Austen seems at least questionable, but Deresiewicz's tales are certainly an entertaining and original version of literary criticism — as autobiography. New books on Jane Austen: lessons for the ages from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' 2011-05-04T19:28:04Z In the story, a French writer named Menard decides to throw literary criticism to the wind when translating Cervantes' famous tale; instead, he memorizes the entire book and rewrites it, word for word. Nic Rad's "Celebritist Manifesto": James Franco fan art becomes actual art-art 2011-02-22T14:12:00Z He writes better movie criticism than most movie critics, better theatre criticism than most theatre critics and better literary criticism than just about anyone. Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn – review 2013-01-06T00:08:39Z Politically Sontag was de-institutionalising literary criticism – tearing it away from the campus. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z From a vaunted perch at Yale, he flew in the face of almost every trend in the literary criticism of his day. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He went on to lament: “College kids used to come in and ask for books on literary criticism. Now they ask for books on movies and directors.” Remembrance of Bookstores Past 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z He writes about nuclear launch keys as if he were writing literary criticism. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z It is a special kind of literary criticism that can make the reader appear to herself a prune, or a prude. The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s a fine piece of naïve literary criticism — maybe the best writing in the movie — about how Ishmael’s troubles compelled the author to think about “my own life.” ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z There’s something about literary criticism today that seems determined to deprive people of that pleasure. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Perhaps there was no high road to be taken here, but as unsatisfying as it is to reward Hudson—a poet who, in the parlance of literary criticism, acted dickishly—Alexie did the right thing. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z So I thought there must be a way to write a work of literary criticism that doesn’t suck all of the joy out of it. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z His honors included the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French Government, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Truman Capote Award for lifetime achievement in literary criticism. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z "As somebody interested in literary criticism, it's pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me," she told the Guardian newspaper. Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat 2011-10-17T14:41:11Z Both explore the peculiar challenges of transforming words into images, and blend illustrations with philosophy, literary criticism and design theory. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The essay is a challenge to the conventions of early twentieth-century literary criticism. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Current affairs and one example of literary criticism are also in the mix. Musician Watt makes non-fiction list 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z These are, typically, books that struggle to attain coverage in the traditional outlets for literary criticism. Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism 2012-09-26T15:37:00Z “Those Who Write for Immortality” is part of a larger genre of literary criticism. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Poetic vision … Bob Dylan’s songs invite literary criticism. The Word on the Street by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-04-26T15:00:01Z This subjectivity appears in literary criticism as well. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z This innovation in literary criticism is impressive – and should be imitated by the art world. Art criticism has become too fawning – time for a best hatchet job award? 2013-01-09T15:06:21Z Machado heightens a sense of dislocation by seeming to practice literary criticism on herself. The Best Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Bookforum, a literary criticism magazine that closed in December to great uproar in the literary world, will be back in print in August with a new publishing partner: The Nation. Bookforum is Returning, Months After its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z In the literature and literary criticism of the twentieth century, it’s simply unavoidable. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Mark Athitakis is a writer in Phoenix and author of “The New Midwest,” a book of literary criticism. In Don Lee’s ‘Lonesome Lies Before Us,’ a singer tries to make one last comeback 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z That literary criticism should focus on texts might seem axiomatic; that it ought not pay attention to the author is perhaps less obvious. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z A postgraduate student in English literature sent her a message that read “a bit like literary criticism”, and they began exchanging messages and discussing their favourite books. What makes men send dick pics? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z And Greenwell’s literary criticism in the New Yorker and the Atlantic demonstrates an unusually keen and insightful mind. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Messud’s literary criticism is more absorbing than her arts criticism and its appeal is proportional to a reader’s familiarity with the subject. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The Booker Prize became one of the world’s most prestigious awards for fiction by setting for itself one of literary criticism’s loftiest goals: to recognize the year’s best novel written in English. After Her Heart Stops Beating, a Woman Continues to Think 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z “So much thought about everything appears in the form of literary criticism,” Iris Murdoch wrote in a 1974 letter. Prime Cuts From Jenny Diski’s Catalog of Intimate, Witty Essays 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Of course, literary criticism cannot avoid sharing the same medium as its subject. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z The criteria are "public", and embedded in the set of "social practices" known as "literary criticism". How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z He published many well-received academic studies on aesthetics and literary criticism and, as a prolific essayist for newspapers and magazines, was one of Italy’s most prominent public intellectuals. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The book “straddles genre, kicks down the fourth wall, dances with poetry, engages with literary criticism and flits from journalism to memoir to academic writing,” Tayari Jones wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z But in his view literary criticism, like psychoanalysis, took a wrong turn. Adam Phillips: a life in writing 2012-06-01T21:55:08Z This, perhaps, is Capote's crime in the high court of literary criticism: that he lied about his art. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z In his work of literary criticism, “The Sense of an Ending,” Frank Kermode wrote about the relationship between literary endings, character deaths and the longstanding human fascination with apocalyptic fantasies. The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z But Bloom’s Freudian turn can also be seen as part of a larger movement in literary criticism. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Epic poetry has traditionally held a highbrow status in literary criticism, while action films are regarded as puerile and brutish. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z The result, “U and I,” was an odd and enchanting mixture of hero worship, self-analysis, and lithe literary criticism. Literary analingus: “What I really wanted to do with Nicholson Baker was have Emersonian sex with him” 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z This may be solid medicine, but it's shoddy literary criticism. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z "Catch-22" wasn't universally panned, but it certainly didn't win any popularity contests among the upper echelon of the literary criticism circuit. 15 things you might not know about "Catch-22" 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z In this regard, Clarke joins several contemporary English writers whose works brilliantly mix group biography, history and literary criticism. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s a fascinating thing to behold: literary criticism that’s deeply personal, hysterically funny and starkly honest in addition to being scholarly and trenchant. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Le Guin was the author of 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, 13 books for children, many short stories as well as literary criticism, according to her website. U.S. author Ursula K. Le Guin dies at 88: family 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The rest of my reading experience was less moist, but when was the last time that literary criticism yielded an emotional reaction other than faint horror or muffled cackling? Books and the ‘Boredom Boom’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z “The Sentence” is injected with literary criticism, and features an appendix containing the favorite books of its main character. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In works published over a 50-year career, Fussell wrote memoir, literary criticism, social commentary and standard English Department fare on topics such as English literature and poetic theory. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z A hybrid work of fiction, memoir and literary criticism, “Forest Dark” alternates between two distinct stories about two Americans who travel to Tel Aviv searching for something they cannot articulate. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The novel, titled “Little Boy,” fuses elements of autobiography, literary criticism, poetry and philosophy, in a headlong, often stream-of-consciousness style. At 99, the Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Has a New Novel 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The kind of close reading for which Eliot was arguing in 1919 remains the foundation of literary criticism in 2019—even if critics now think of it as a starting point, not a terminus. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The other sections — biography, autobiography, theater, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, classical literature, literary criticism, art, photography, books by friends — are not alphabetized. ‘Why Have a Large Library and Not Use It?’ Janet Malcolm: By the Book 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z That’s the constant theme to be found in whatever he wrote, even when he embarked on normally staid literary criticism. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z As an academic I thought I should have at least one work of literary criticism on my list. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z As in the movies he reviews,the quality of his literary criticism often eclipses the subject matter of his focus. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z In nonfiction, a wide array of subjects: threats to democracy, ancient crafts, strategy during the Vietnam War, Ezra Pound in confinement and the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s literary criticism. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z And is different from writing a work of literary criticism, but I think it's been useful. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Though slow, or close reading, always has been emphasized at the college-level in literary criticism and other areas, it's also popping up in elementary schools, Miedema said. NH professor pushes for return to slow reading 2010-06-17T14:57:00Z First of all it’s a bit older, which means it doesn’t fall into the language of literary criticism today, which has become a very technical, jargon-ridden language that I’m not really a fan of. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Subsequently, the threat of prison became another kind of literary criticism. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z Spark was a postmodernist writer before that term was known to literary criticism. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Poe wrote love poetry, literary criticism, humorous sketches and science fiction as well as “tales of mystery and horror.” Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z So too, when it was done best, was literary criticism a thing of beauty. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z He is taking stock of childhood, and his decades in America, and in doing so he performs a kind of literary criticism on his own life. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Electric Literature publishes fiction, essays, book news and literary criticism but is relatively new to cultural criticism. Electric Literature's Bodega Project is the literary counterpoint to the tech start-up 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s ostensibly literary criticism, but it does much more than that. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z But “He Held Radical Light” is something else: a collection of private memories, literary criticism and theology, plus an eccentric anthology of poems Wiman holds dear, all drawn into an argument about art and faith. Is All Art Sacred Art? In a Prose Meditation, One Poet Makes the Case 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The last stretch of Tóibín’s book is the most straightforward, the closest in method to conventional literary criticism. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z As beautifully wrought as these three books are, they are essentially conventional literary criticism, albeit operating at a very high level. The National Book Critics Circle finalists in criticism award 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Her daring approach is a hybrid of memoir, literary criticism and cultural commentary. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The movie is an affecting group portrait and also a complex and subtle piece of literary criticism. ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’ Review: China Through Writers’ Eyes 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Yet he enjoyed this collection: "There are many delightful biographical and bibliographical details among the literary criticism." Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-11-23T22:55:05Z Other exceptions to that formula remain puzzles in literary criticism: Melville’s “Billy Budd” and “Moby-Dick,” both of which support multiple interpretations regarding the rank, the power, the meaning that goodness is given in these texts. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Maybe in the world of literary criticism, the author’s intentions are often seen as irrelevant. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Wilson’s mammoth effort from 1962 is an attempt to understand the war through a mixture of literary criticism and biography. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z His argument, Wodehouse declared, was that “the soppiness and overenthusiasm of modern literary criticism is due to the fact that critics are now clean shaven instead of wearing full-size whiskers.” Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z In that fight, Eliot is rooting for what he sees as the underdog, tradition—the foundational essay of modern literary criticism is fundamentally conservative. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z His other books include the novel "Foucault's Pendulum" and literary criticism, including "On Ugliness" and "The Book of Lists." Umberto Eco's next novel is coming to America 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z There were poetry books along with biographies, literary criticism and histories, some with tabs attached to pages Ms. Merchant might want to revisit. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z Here, he reveals himself to be a skillful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It is a landscape film, an essay film, a celebrity biography full of testimony from friends and colleagues and also a hauntingly original piece of literary criticism. Movie Review: ?Patience (After Sebald),? a Documentary 2012-05-08T22:32:23Z Way back in that innocent year 1959, a young professor of English at Yale published a slender volume of literary criticism called “Shelley’s Mythmaking,” an erudite and transgressive analysis of the English Romantic. Harold Bloom takes on 12 American greats in ‘The Daemon Knows’ 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Less Than One is a collection of essays – call it memoir, call it literary criticism, or that modern, catch-all term "literary non-fiction", it is a modern masterpiece. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z That pleasure White takes in the exchange of information — even in interviews, he asks as many questions as he is asked — is also central to his literary criticism, which he prefers to call “appreciation.” Living With Edmund White 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z By longstanding tradition, as Professor Hartman reminded his readers, literary criticism was seen as a handmaiden of literature — an adjunct whose sole raison d’être was literature itself. Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z It's worth stressing here that awards are another substitute for literary criticism, though this is by no means an exclusively Polish phenomenon. What they're reading in Poland 2011-04-04T07:00:02Z I had met Kipnis a few times before, most recently two years ago, when she attended a presentation I gave on literary criticism and affect. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Back in the 1990s, Christopher Ricks stirred it up by applying the techniques of academic literary criticism to the study of Bob Dylan's songs. The Word on the Street by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-04-26T15:00:01Z Le Guin was the author of 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, 13 books for children, many short stories as well as literary criticism, according to her website. U.S. author Ursula K. Le Guin dies at 88: family 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z In his own work, the Nobel Prize-winning author may reinvent the rules of fiction, but his literary criticism hews to more traditional formulas, enriched with fascinating biographies of writers and brilliant psychologizing of their characters. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It is depressing to realize that the creative process and literary criticism are now falling victim to political correctness. Book Spoilers, Sex Jokes and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z "It's not literary criticism," he is keen to stress. Why artist David Shrigley has pulped 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography," The New York Times wrote in a review. Novelist Kundera mixed philosophy, irony to explore human nature 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Lovers of long-form literary criticism have a little less to lament today. Bookforum is back! After folding last year, the beloved lit mag is revived by the Nation 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Aristotle was one of the greatest geniuses of the ancient world, producing learned works on philosophy, astronomy, physics, biology, literary criticism and, most importantly for medieval Europe, logic. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s fun to watch Odenkirk, who excelled at that character’s seedy patter, tackle literary criticism and tetchy, resentful respectability. Review | Can depression get playful? ‘Lucky Hank’ says yes. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z In 1956, 14,000 people packed the basketball arena at the University of Minnesota to hear Eliot deliver a lecture on literary criticism. Opinion | ‘The Waste Land,’ T.S. Eliot’s primal scream, resonates 100 years on 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Secondary sources in the humanities disciplines include biographies, literary criticism, and reviews of the fine arts, among other sources. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The exposition jumps for intellectual joy, hopscotching from literary criticism to philosophy and psychology to political analysis. Review | ‘Animal Joy’ is a necessary reminder of laughter’s cathartic nature 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z He single-handedly founded the disciplines of biology, literary criticism, political science, and logical philosophy. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z French philosopher Jacques Derrida got little notice in the wider world for his approach to literary criticism, but he was a rock star in the upper reaches of academia back then. Perspective | National English-teaching group loses grip on reality at terrible time 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z In this edition, every single page of “The Big Sleep” is accompanied by deeply informed, lively commentary on Chandler’s life, Los Angeles in the 1930s, and smart and snappy literary criticism. Review | Philip Marlowe, we thought we knew thee 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z It is this “talking back” that has advanced hooks’s approach to literary criticism. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Three winners were named in each of three categories: literary criticism, arts writing and journalism. Inaugural winners announced for Silvers-Dudley writing award 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Her work, across some 30 books, encompassed literary criticism, children’s fiction, self-help, memoir and poetry, and it tackled not just subjects like education, capitalism and American history but also love and friendship. bell hooks, pathbreaking Black feminist, dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z But Los Angeles — despite its thriving cultural, artistic and academic institutions and no shortage of writers — lacked a hub for literary criticism. New Yorkers scoffed. 10 years later, the Los Angeles Review of Books is a cultural force 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z “Orwell’s Roses” is at once a biographical study of this champion of freedom, an impressive work of cultural and literary criticism and a testament to Solnit’s far-ranging curiosity. What does George Orwell's garden tell us about his writing, you ask? Everything 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Finnegan’s Gawker is, so far, funny and occasionally trenchant — I’m surprised to say the two pieces I’ve enjoyed most are both literary criticism — but it hasn’t yet had a breakout hit. If Gawker Is Nice, Is It Still Gawker? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z His mind was changed, he said, when he came upon a particular work of literary criticism that opened his imagination to Dante’s genius. Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Jamie Fisher is a writer whose work focuses on culture and literary criticism. The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z I still remember my first sentence, which was both banal and true: In any literary criticism, one must first consider the historical context in which a work was written. Opinion | Don’t cancel Shakespeare 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The world of politics, like the world of literary criticism, is not, as many believe, a matter of pure subjectivity. This time in my teacher voice: On two pandemics and the cost of "moderation" 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Born in 1893, Parker worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, writing drama and literary criticism for the later magazines. Talks underway to move ashes of famed writer from Baltimore 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Born in 1893, Parker worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, and wrote drama and literary criticism. Talks underway to move ashes of writer Dorothy Parker out of Baltimore 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z They are an enriching mix of literary criticism, our current politics and the medical crisis that confronts us. Feedback: The coronavirus toll on art, theater and TV 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z From the Land of Shadows by Clive James won’t be everyone’s idea of comfort reading: you don’t generally curl up with a collection of literary criticism. Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z From coding to financial planning to literary criticism! Marge knows best. How "The Simpsons" inspires one L.A. mom in quarantine. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Whatever the two justices’ modest deficiencies in literary criticism, our contemporary public life would be edified by not only their jurisprudence but also their graces. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A shameful virtual media blackout on Yemen 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z His generalism, as well as his disdain for allegiance to any single school of literary criticism, attracted critics as well as admirers. George Steiner, renowned literary critic, dies at 90 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “Born Slippy,” which traces the unlikely friendship between two men — one basically moral, the other much less so — is Lutz’s debut novel after years of producing history, literary criticism, travel essays, screenplays and television pilots. Tom Lutz fights for L.A. publishing, this time as a novelist 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z She later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and by the end of the decade was writing literary criticism for Commonweal, a liberal Catholic magazine. Alice Mayhew, book editor with an eye on Washington, dies at 87 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The broad scope of his work - which included linguistics, philosophy and literary criticism - was praised as much by his admirers as it was disapproved of by others. Literary critic George Steiner dies aged 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z And there are other tools from literary criticism that we can apply in miniature, ones that would let us hear and learn from a wider range of perspectives. How an experimental story about gender and warfare shook the sci-fi community 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z In trying to understand the malaise of modern scientists, I have found that ideas from literary criticism can serve some purpose. How Harold Bloom, the Late Literary Critic, Helped Me Write The End of Science 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s not often a 6,700-word piece of literary criticism goes viral. 'Go Cougars!': Elizabeth Warren gave the classiest response to a rightwing troll's lie 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Tolkien was a language scholar who lived before literary criticism became a more interdisciplinary analytic tool that incorporated psychology theory. If "Lord of the Rings" is a parable for trauma, what can it teach us now? 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Her non-fiction books included an essay collection, a book of literary criticism titled “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination” and editing anthologies. Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison dead at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The last book that made me cry I don’t believe in tears as a currency of literary criticism. Sarah Moss: ‘The most overrated book? The Great American Novel' 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Ironic science resembles literary criticism in that it offers points of view, opinions, which are, at best, interesting, which provoke further comment. How Harold Bloom, the Late Literary Critic, Helped Me Write The End of Science 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Panel discussions will touch upon podcasts, literary criticism, digital marketing and trends in children’s books. ‘Sideline’ products will be in the spotlight at BookExpo 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Panel discussions will touch upon podcasts, literary criticism, digital marketing and trends in children’s books. ‘Sideline’ products will be in the spotlight at BookExpo 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Fragment 31 is one of the longest extant pieces of Sappho’s work, preserved because it was excerpted in “On the Sublime,” a work of literary criticism from the first century. Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z It added, “Interpretations of even generally agreed upon ‘facts’ may vary greatly, a contention that is the lifeblood of scholarly pursuit, from medicine and mechanical engineering to literary criticism and macroeconomics.” Singapore passes ‘fake news’ law following researcher outcry 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z At its best ironic science, like great art or philosophy or, yes, literary criticism, induces wonder in us; it keeps us in awe before the mystery of the universe. How Harold Bloom, the Late Literary Critic, Helped Me Write The End of Science 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In Mark Twain’s Literary Resources, a three-volume work of literary criticism to be published in May, Gribben outlines the reading that influenced Twain, from Shakespeare to Poe. Why would one man read Mark Twain's whole library? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Harold Bloom judged the book “a grand achievement” with “no rivals,” but Sacks never finished another work of literary criticism. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Ocasio-Cortez scoffed at the president’s evocation of literary aptitude, retorting: “Ah yes, a man who can’t even read briefings written in full sentences is providing literary criticism of a House Resolution.” Ocasio-Cortez blasts Trump’s comparison of Green New Deal to ‘HS term paper' 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Smyth’s reflections on loss weave in and out of literary criticism, and gesture toward questions about how art gives meaning to life, and vice versa. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z It seems to have taken the election of a man who is the personification of perspectivalism to reset the ethical calibrations of literary criticism. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Others, like history and literary criticism, have not. Do Proteins Hold the Key to the Past? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The slight tremor in Relling’s voice alerts him to a human connection that is, in some sense, outside the language of literary criticism, or at least outside the protocols of pedagogy. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Cohen truly commits to his subjects, dropping knowledge and literary criticism all over the place. Review: Joshua Cohen’s ‘Attention’ demands your whole focus 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z He laughed off the 1989 fatwa by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie as “an extreme form of literary criticism.” V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 85 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z He laughed off the 1989 fatwa by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie as “an extreme form of literary criticism.” V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 85 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z When Salman Rushdie went into hiding after The Satanic Verses, for instance, Naipaul described the fatwa as "an extreme form of literary criticism." Obituary: VS Naipaul 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z He laughed off the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie as “an extreme form of literary criticism.” Family: Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul dies at 85 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z A blend of memoir, literary criticism and social history, it is as engaging as it is thoughtful. Whisky, ink and the road to ruin 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Nor do homosexuals suffer from an “emotional-psychological illness,” as he casually mentions — for this was an era in which such public slurs were chic and permissible, especially in the guise of literary criticism. A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z His writings explored such themes as the lives of the working poor and the dark side of colonialism, and he also produced fine literary criticism. H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their Debate Whether Science Is Humanity's Best Hope Continues Today 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Miller was not engaging in literary criticism – he was making it clear that these people are not welcome in Trump’s USA. Is nothing sacred? Now Trump's White House is targeting the Statue of Liberty 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It wasn’t sophisticated literary criticism, but that wasn’t the point. A Wakeup Call on Writing Instruction (Now, What’s an Adverb?) 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z This reads pretty clearly as a suggestion that Trilling, too, was a suck-up who wrote literary criticism in the hope of getting invited to a party with Jackie Kennedy. The Book That Scandalized the New York Intellectuals 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Under his guiding editorial hand, the New York Review of Books set a new standard for engaged literary criticism in America. Robert Silvers, founding editor of the New York Review of Books, has died 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Simons says the notebook is part love letter, part travelogue and part literary criticism. Revealed: Germaine Greer's 30,000-word love letter to Martin Amis, a lover who left her 'helpless with desire' 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Many prominent thinkers in black literary criticism think so. 'Black characters are still revolutionary’: writers talk about the complexity of race 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z This makes her later work, particularly the pieces collected in “Political Fictions,” which treat subjects like the Iran-Contra affair and the Starr Report, seem a little more like literary criticism than like reporting. The Radicalization of Joan Didion 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z He despised much modern literary criticism: it used “important” freely but shunned “beautiful”. The man who told us so 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Much of Scalia’s dissent reads less like a judicial opinion than a piece of withering literary criticism. Five unexpected arguments in Scalia's same-sex marriage dissent 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Around that same age, she read “The Sacred Wood,” a collection of T. S. Eliot’s essays and literary criticism. Bricklayer, Bird-Watcher, Literary Sensation 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Women writers are all over the best-seller lists, but literary criticism is still predominantly a male field. Study: Literary Criticism Is Still Overwhelmingly Male 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He has long been the subject of literary criticism of the highest calibre. James Merrill’s Supernatural Epic 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z An aphoristic, weird work of literary criticism, Reality Hunger argues that to survive, the novel must become less like itself, to just stop with the whole plot-character-theme business. Does Fiction Need to Become Less ... Fictional? He was also noted for his literary criticism. Author John Bayley, husband of Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He has written volume after volume of memoirs and of television, film and literary criticism. Prolific Writer Clive James, Facing Death, Reflects on Getting ‘a Few Things Done’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z But this is conflating reviewing and literary criticism. Inside the world of Amazon Vine book reviewers: how I ended up with a mailbox full of dog poo 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z All of us — champions in debate, calculus, physics, music, literary criticism and more — gathered on the floor of the Texas state Senate to accept Gov. Perry’s congratulations. Football culture’s ugly allure: My high school tale of love and longing 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z A colleague points out that the word “deconstruct” has been getting a workout in The Times lately — and not just in reference to opaque French literary criticism. Words We Love Too Much 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z This political and cultural analysis encapsulates in an elegant 90 pages Morrison's thinking, whose relevance reaches far beyond literary criticism. The top 10 feminist books 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “He said, ‘Don’t read the Soviet papers before breakfast,’ especially their literary criticisms,” Prokhorov said. Nets 127, Hawks 110: In Rare Visit, Nets’ Owner Offers His Support 2014-01-17T01:06:57Z Mr. Faruqi, 78, who retired as a top bureaucrat in the Indian Postal Service, is a leading figure of Urdu literary criticism. India Ink: A Conversation With: Literary Critic and Novelist Shamsur Rahman Faruqi 2013-07-17T13:11:10Z "This will introduce a degree of literary criticism into military communication." US Navy ditches capital letters rule 2013-06-13T15:14:15Z Ragtag, wayward and polymorphous, it folds in aspects of memoir, travel, ecology, botany, zoology, topography, geology, folklore, literary criticism, psychogeography, anthropology, conservation and even fiction. Environment: New words on the wild 2013-06-12T17:50:33.220Z Eliot, Andrew Lloyd Webber, , the wasteland, Nobel prize for literature, arts and letters, , , Publishing News, , England, , literary criticism, , the bard, , A letter written by T.S. Lost T.S. Eliot letter turns up after 40 years 2013-02-13T12:24:00Z The failed bid to remove the novel “Beloved” from Fairfax County classrooms this week illustrated perhaps one of the more obscure duties of the school board: literary criticism. Fairfax school board members had to read “Beloved” before ruling on the book 2013-02-08T23:56:00Z Those courses often center on argumentation and literary criticism, or instead on the philosophy of logic, but there are opportunities to expand this— particularly by giving science a larger presence. Re-thinking the way colleges teach critical thinking 2012-12-14T18:45:00.450Z Outside of novels, she has written literary criticism and even lyrics for operas, including Honey and Rue, with music by Andre Previn. Obama gives 13 Medal of Freedom 2012-05-29T20:47:26Z But although the opinion of the Roman converts was extremely worthless, when dealing with past history or with literary criticism, there was one branch of miracles concerning which their position was somewhat different. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Under the guise of literary criticism, the French writer veils a polemic against religion: "For Christians actually do find solace in a belief in a future life," is one of his remarks. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z He had constantly endeavored, he said, to combine ethical precepts with literary criticism. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z They are exceedingly lively bits of journalistic literary criticism, highly entertaining in their exhibition of Kilmer's pet aversions, which, after all, sprang from his manly common sense. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The Review gave an impulse to periodical literature, and elevated the tone of literary criticism and political disquisition. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z In his essays, and especially in his literary criticisms, he seemed devoid of penetration and of a grasp upon the verities. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z It would not bear searching literary criticism; fortunately, no one has been so ungracious as to apply it. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z They assumed its cardinal principles in historical and literary criticism, in dramatic art, in poetry and romance. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z This is why literary criticism is closer to theology than to any other science; this is why we cannot claim to understand any writer unless we know what he thinks about God. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z If I have become addicted to tales of piracy, I must attribute it to the literary criticisms of too strenuous realists. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Their loneliness forced them to grow together most harmoniously, but their long exercise in literary criticism would have made them possibly merciless judges of H. J.'s crude beginnings. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z It also reacted unfavourably on Croker’s reputation as a worker in the department of pure literature by bringing political animosities into literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z He was the author also of what seem to have been works on grammar and literary criticism and history, written in trochaic and other metres, and known by the names Didascalica and Pragmatica, and Parerga. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z However, his literary criticism of their work is delightful. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z There are those who endeavor to reduce literary criticism to an exact science. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Sure," he replied; "they do something like that in literary criticism. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z Of light, whether from science, or from literary criticism, or from the progress of the human conscience, he hailed thankfully and expectantly every fresh disclosure. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z In this capacity he earned a national reputation as a censor of literature, his articles and sketches pertaining to literary criticism being collected in several volumes. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z Despite having no higher degree, he began writing literary criticism in 1955. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z There is the grand manner; there is foolery; there is straightforward literary criticism; there is pathos, politics, and the picturesque. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z He was not above par in literary criticism; his Indian articles will not hold water; and his two most famous reviews, on Bacon and Ranke, show his incompetence. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Greek poetry, especially in its higher forms, rhetoric and literary criticism, history and philosophy, were all cultivated by Greek writers at Rome. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Matthew Arnold’s essay on Gray in Ward’s English Poets is one of the minor classics of literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He was also the editor of several journals devoted to literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z "This is a fascinating volume, and has the right quality of literary criticism." Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z His familiarity with Sainte-Beuve, the master of literary criticism, was so great, that on occasion of that writer's decease, he sat down and wrote an account of him without recourse to books. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z It was in this century that literary criticism of French and in French first began to be largely composed, and after this time we shall give it a separate heading. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Even more boldly, it’s a book about how the teaching of literature evolved over the second half of the 20th century--how literary criticism encroached upon, and then overtook, the reading of novels. ?The Marriage Plot? captures college as both social and cerebral 2011-10-12T15:16:00Z One or two remarks may here be added as to the bearing of the results of literary criticism upon the use of the Gospels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z In a period in which the canon of English literary criticism was being formed, farce illustrates the disparity between received classical principles and the playwright's actual craft. The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce 2011-09-15T02:00:12.030Z Robert Manning of Brunne was more of a literary critic; the passage in which he deals severely with the contemporary rhyming dunces is singularly interesting in a time when literary criticism is rare. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The prize competitions of the Academy were also a considerable stimulus to literary criticism, though the prevailing taste in such compositions rather inclined to elegant themes than to careful studies of analyses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z His letters were never strong or bright, nor were his occasional literary criticisms either acute or profound; all his great powers were kept in reserve for his magnum opus—the History. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z We turn to the literary criticism of the Gospels, where solid results have been obtained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The most striking note of Lamb's literary criticism is its veracity. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Numerous letters came to him from authors inviting his literary criticism, or asking him to accord to them the honor of permitting them to dedicate their works to him. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Many of Saint-�vremond’s printed works are nominally works of literary criticism, but the moralizing spirit pervades all of them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Author of Sonnets, the prose romance Arcadia, and The Apologie for Poetrie, with which latter work literary criticism may be said to begin. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z That such a composition as the fourth Gospel was written by such a man, in his old age too, the laws of literary criticism cannot admit. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z In the third place, anonymous literary criticism opens wide the door of malice on the one hand, and of undue favoritism on the other. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z He said that one of Dr. Johnson's acutest literary criticisms was his remark that Tacitus seemed rather to have made notes for a historical work than to have written a history. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z The method of much of the literary criticism of the close of this period was indeed deplorable enough. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z In “Humanism and Democratic Criticism,” Edward Said argued for the necessity of a “return to philology” in literary criticism, but in this case, I would argue for an analogous return to something else: counterpoint. The Score: After Tahrir, New Voices in a Global Fugue 2011-07-06T23:39:13Z To the present writer the ungenuineness of the fourth Gospel has for several years seemed as distinctly proved as any point in literary criticism can be. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z I have often meditated upon these things since, and I have found abundant reason to adopt Mr. Bryant's view that an anonymous literary criticism is as despicable as an anonymous letter. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Criticism did not stop here; it overstepped the boundaries of purely literary criticism; it became historical criticism, too. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Indeed he has been acclaimed, with more reason than is usually found in such acclamations, as the founder of comparative and imaginative literary criticism in France if not in Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z But during the Jim Crow period, particularly during the 1930s when literary criticism in the academy became very conservative, they looked for different things in literature. The woman who started the Civil War 2011-06-14T00:01:00Z Step outside literary criticism and other intriguing possibilities bubble up. Bits And The Bard 2011-06-08T22:00:00Z Noteworthy American volume of literary criticism ... a well-balanced, discerning and unhackneyed study ... delightfully readable.... Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Its central ideas have been applied not merely in the department of biology, but everywhere in the world of thought,—in philosophy, in religion, in literature and literary criticism. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z To him, however, we must recur under the head of literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The history of literary criticism in England will be traced no farther than 1650, when the influence of France was substituted -260-for that of Italy. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z You have established new canons of literary criticism—more liberal ones—and death to the wretch who does not accept them! The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z I directed that and saw that it was done, so that every publisher and, through the publishers, every author, should know that every literary criticism in the Evening Post was your utterance. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z By this he meant something more than merely literary criticism; but he certainly included that. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In pure literary criticism more particularly, Joubert, though exhibiting some inconsistencies due to his time, is astonishingly penetrating and suggestive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Those who have some acquaintance, however superficial, with the literary criticism of the Italian Renaissance will find an account of the Elizabethan theory of poetry a twice-told tale. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The conversation has made the transition from literary criticism to philosophy, in Moli�re’s time a fashionable study, rendered such by the contemporary genius and fame of Descartes. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z In the first place, anonymous literary criticism may easily become a cowardly stabbing in the back under cover of darkness. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z As regards their chronology, the literary criticism is mainly the product of the decade between 1860 and 1870, but from time to time all through his literary career Arnold wrote criticism. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The show includes the effects of climate on crop production, detecting infectious disease, Darwinian literary criticism, and more. [Podcast] Science Podcast 2011-05-05T18:25:50.533Z During the sixteenth century, literary criticism had been entirely in the hands of learned men. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z But in France purely literary criticism, the examination and constant re-examination of the classics of the nation, takes an honoured and a vivid place in the education of the young. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z My objection to your use of the article is that I regard an anonymous literary criticism as a thing quite as despicable, unmanly, and cowardly as an anonymous letter. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The Italians have lately made vigorous strides in the direction of sound historical research and scientific literary criticism. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Yes, I realise I'm no scholar of English literary criticism. TV Review: Women in Love; Toughest Race On Earth With James Cracknell 2011-03-24T22:30:04Z It is in keeping with the practical character of the literary criticism of this period that the members of the Pl�iade did not concern themselves with the general theory of poetry. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z THE importance of literary criticism in the higher education of a race has been recognized in no country in the world except France. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z It is only a piece of literary criticism, together with a first broad lesson in the history of philosophy—and, perhaps, in philosophy itself. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z It is a mass of quotations, anecdotes, bits of literary criticism, all run together with an air of culture and pleasantness, a spice of gallantry and a surprising indifference to historical fact. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In this atmosphere of slavery the traditions of modern literary criticism were evolved. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z But Savonarola and Poliziano serve to indicate that modern literary criticism had not yet begun. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z In Hazlitt and Francis Jeffrey we see the form and method of the essay beginning to be applied to literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z But one is grieved that one must differ with him when it comes to literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z And how was it that the Athenian public never tired of this incessant poet-baiting, these incessant appeals to literary criticism in the midst of farce? Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The conscientious inquirer, therefore, who wades through a mass of literary criticism in the hope of obtaining some elucidation of the question, seems only doomed to experience disappointment. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z The treatment of comedy in the literary criticism of this period is entirely confined to a discussion and elaboration of the little that Aristotle says on the subject of comedy in the Poetics. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z His last bit of literary criticism in Cosmopolis was really excellently done. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z The examples of Lucretius versifying philosophy in his Nature of Things, and that of Horace writing literary criticism in verse in his Art of Poetry, have been fruitful of mischief. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Academy, The, ordered to occupy itself with literary criticism, iii. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z In literary criticism must be named George William Curtis, as well as Stedman and Winter, already named among the poets. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z The problem before us, then, is this: What was the result of this imitation of the classics, in so far as it regards the literary criticism of the Renaissance? A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z His Introduction, consisting of three closely packed volumes dealing with textual as well as literary criticism, is the first comprehensive treatment of the entire Old Testament as literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Aristotle's idea that metre is an unessential element in determining poetry has never really taken root in literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample. Schumpeter: Declining by degree 2010-09-02T10:46:00Z These snippets are published under the principle of "fair use," a body of laws that allows reproduction of a particular work under certain limited circumstances, for example for educational purposes or literary criticism. Europe Experiments With Book Scans 2010-03-11T16:05:00Z Varchi had spoken of years of Aristotelian study as an essential prerequisite for every one who entered the field of literary criticism. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Bound up with this question of literary criticism is the very important question of the origin and development of the Messianic idea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z It is a pity he did not continue literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Although he practiced law full time until 1987, Mr. Auchincloss published more than 60 books of fiction, biography and literary criticism in a writing career of more than a half-century. 2010-01-28T04:18:00Z Not the least cogent proof of this is the literary criticism of the work. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Rationalism produced several very important results in literature and literary criticism during the sixteenth century. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z But the limitations of Hobbes’ literary criticism judged from our present standpoint are great. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Shaw considered as literature of the first order work which makes a distinct original contribution to morality, even if such writing is literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In history, biography, antiquities, grammar, literary criticism, his materials and authors are prevailingly Latin. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The writings of Chamfort, which include comedies, political articles, literary criticisms, portraits, letters, and verses, are colourless and uninteresting in the extreme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The causes of its development in literary criticism may be found not only in these but in several other influences of the period. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The third division embraces his writings in the domain of history, biography and literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" One of the results of Croce's aesthetic views on intuition is to drive out of literary criticism the exercise of the intellect. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Similarly, when he turned for a too brief space to literary criticism, he proved himself the master of all living men in the art of the literary causerie. The Book of This and That For persons who have enjoyed this experience, mere literary criticism has henceforth no terrors. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. The second half of the design, then, is the history of the Italian influence in literary criticism; and with Milton, the last of the humanists in England, the essay naturally closes. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The public has a natural suspicion of literary criticism. Helena Brett's Career One of the great products of Arabic culture was its work in literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But they abound in keen social satire, in acute literary criticism, and in verbal wit. A Short History of French Literature In the present state of literary criticism, one must be very careful not to permit women and children to display their sensitive and tender natures. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction This essay undertakes to treat the history of literary criticism in the Renaissance. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z All Russia had read him, but literary criticism had ignored him. An Outline of Russian Literature The Arab example contradicts the famous platitude that great epochs of creative literary work are not ages of literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He also exercised himself a good deal in literary criticism and as a journalist of all work on the staffs of the Journal des Débats and the Revue des Deux-Mondes. A Short History of French Literature A literary criticism of the book was read, and one of the chapters of the story; and the songs that are oftenest alluded to were sung. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel There are scarcely any traces of realism, in anything like its modern sense, in the literary criticism of this period. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z It is as if English literary criticism had ignored Dickens until 1900. An Outline of Russian Literature Aristotle's best known contribution to literary criticism is his statement that tragedy has the effect of a catharsis upon the reader and helps him to discharge emotions of pity and fear that overburden him. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z To this and to literary criticism and history he devoted himself for the remainder of his long life, becoming President of the Academy of Sciences, and virtual dictator of the Académie Française. A Short History of French Literature This canon faithfully applied enabled Carlyle to invest with a new and living interest large sections of literary criticism. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series They enter the critical literature of Europe from the time of Castelvetro, and may almost be said to be the last contributions of Italy to literary criticism. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Karamzin in the twenties had been the first to introduce literary criticism, and critical appreciations of Pushkin’s work appeared from time to time in the European Messenger. An Outline of Russian Literature Aristotle's Poetics, except for a few vital passages, has done more mischief in literary criticism than his Logic has done in philosophy. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z This is what makes Dickens such a demigod and his public success such a marvel, and this also is why any exclusively literary criticism of his work is bound to be so inadequate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" We began our work together every morning,—he supervising and supplying the political department of the paper, I doing what I could in the way of social and literary criticism. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 To pass to an historical examination of the subject, we find that in antiquity Aristotle was regarded as the father and almost as the founder of literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" For this extensive work on contemporary politics, for his illustrated travels, and his artistic and literary criticism, he is better known than for his two or three novels and volumes of poetry. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The chief merit of his edition is his excellent literary criticism, which is truer, deeper, and more refined than that of his old Winchester master. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Hand in hand with literary criticism goes historical criticism. The Christian View of the Old Testament Subsequently taking to journalism, he became editor of the Examiner, and considerably raised the standard of literary criticism in that periodical, while after quitting it he wrote for some time on the Daily News. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The comedy of The Frogs, by the latter, is the earliest specimen we possess of hostile literary criticism, being devoted to ridicule of the plays of Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The element of literary criticism is not, however, by any means entirely lacking. Contemporary Russian Novelists In truth, she is seldom happy in her literary criticisms. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The literary criticism concerns itself with the literary history of Old Testament books. The Christian View of the Old Testament Editor of "Anthology of Magazine Verse," published annually, "The Book of Georgian Verse," "The Book of Restoration Verse," contributor of literary criticisms to the Boston Transcript and magazines. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children The essays here brought together are meant to illustrate English literary criticism during the nineteenth century. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century In formal literary criticism he is pompous and scholastic. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) For you are to understand that too little literary criticism is done on a cash basis. The So-called Human Race This word, although not recognized by the New English Dictionary as an English term, is yet so frequently used in English literary criticisms that some definition of it seems to be demanded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" The former is one of the best essays in literary criticism which antiquity has bequeathed to us. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Closely connected with the educational influences of the renaissance was the introduction of literary criticism. History of Human Society The branches of knowledge with which the movements of free thought in religion are connected, are chiefly literary criticism and science. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion For the rest, it is all but demonstrable that "scientific" literary criticism is impossible, unless the word "scientific" is to have its meaning very illegitimately altered. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Yet, he adds, 9,000 copies are printed quarterly, 'no genteel family can pretend to be without it,' and it contains the only valuable literary criticism of the day. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Unflinching truthfulness, even in literary criticism, must have tried their tempers, and the single word "démêlé," best translated "row," occurs often in Godwin's diary as his note on one of their meetings. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle He lacked that familiarity with literature and with the conventions of literary criticism which would have made it easy for him to produce the analysis of his novel which he felt was needed. Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript In literature we may question on text not discussed in class to ascertain the students' power of appreciation or of literary criticism. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College But here, too, the value of his literary criticism shows itself. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It appears in his literary criticism as much as in his political speculations. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) In Addison's days you could scarcely show him a literary performance, a sermon, or a poem, or a piece of literary criticism, but he felt he could do better. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges It would be unfair to treat them as literary criticism, for which he cared as little as it deserves. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice He was, indeed, tolerably safe from the chance, for it is one of the conditions of literary criticism that the reviewers shall be nearly always young persons. Imaginary Interviews But they are not limited, it should be said, to purely literary criticism; and they appear, if not quite so strongly, in his estimates of personal character, and even in his purely political arguments. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Both treat of literary criticism, and the first deals particularly with that of the drama. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors So again, a very good proof that he did not intend this essay to be a literary criticism primarily, another evidence beside the closing paragraph, is found in his division of the whole essay. English: Composition and Literature Spanish literature was not the loser by these combats, whose description belongs to general literary criticism. Jewish Literature and Other Essays A study of history, arch�ology and literary criticism has developed in modern times a spirit of scepticism regarding written records of antiquity. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy It is the worst in warfare, it is the worst in literature, but it is possibly the best in literary criticism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Not only did scholarship restore the classics and encourage literary criticism; it also restored the text of the Bible, and encouraged theological criticism. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 While in Italy on his travels Baretti set on foot a journal of literary criticism, to which he gave the title of Frusta letteraria, the literary scourge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" As to literary criticism of his works and style, see his own opinion in the extract below. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Historical and literary criticism was altogether unknown, and a number of works were ascribed to Aristotle which did not belong to him, and which were foreign in spirit to his mode of thinking. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy I cannot say I have ever been greatly helped by what I have read concerning the standards for literary criticism. Waiting for Daylight In literary criticism, and in the discussion of art, there are more than a hundred important terms whose history determines their present use and meaning. The Writing of the Short Story That must be our motto in literary criticism as it is our motto in other things. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The fact that the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian wrote and asked him to write literary criticism for the Manchester 242 Guardian will perhaps convey nothing to the American citizen. When Winter Comes to Main Street One reason may have been the lack of historical and literary criticism spoken of above, and the other the difficulty of the Arabic translations of Aristotle. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Compare it, as a travel book, for substance and style, with A Week on the Concord; though that is a silly thing to ask, if no sillier than literary criticism usually is. Waiting for Daylight Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Multilingualism on the Web He has written history, fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and philosophy, and to all these forms he has brought sympathy, erudition, a fresh point of view, and a radiant style. The Merry-Go-Round The Manchester Guardian publishes the most fastidious and judicious literary criticism in Britain. When Winter Comes to Main Street Cardinal Bellarmine heard of it, and proved his keenness and skill in literary criticism by asking what age the man was who proposed such an undertaking. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 The present writer cannot attempt a literary criticism of the translation. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography In the way of literary criticism, again, Coleridge throws out the quaint and uncommon remark upon Addison's Essays, that they 'have produced a passion for the unconnected in the minds of Englishmen.' Studies in Literature and History Nowadays people begin with literary criticism, generally a study on Shelley. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Anyhow, if Swinnerton excels in fiction he also excels in literary criticism. When Winter Comes to Main Street Allegory put an end to all literary criticism.... Manhood of Humanity. The present writer is unable to offer any literary criticism of the translation. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography The literary criticism to be found in these letters shows a fastidious and delicate taste that had been nurtured almost too exclusively upon the masterpieces of classic antiquity. Studies in Literature and History I have often heard the literary criticism of The Nation called destructive like the political, but, it appears to me, with less reason. Historical Essays But the other day, in 'The Garden's Story,' by Mr. George H. Ellwanger, I came upon a piece of literary criticism which gave me a pleasurable pause in my search for quite other information. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Into his literary criticism he carries the same tendencies: it is far from judicial criticism; its merit is that it is personal and touched with emotion. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. But it would be literary criticism, a thing widely different from the scientific treatment of Fairy Tales. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology But correspondence that was never meant for publication is hardly a fair subject for literary criticism. Studies in Literature and History He should, therefore, read Eckermann’s “Conversations with Goethe,” in which he will find a body of profitable literary criticism, given out in a familiar way by the most celebrated man then living. Historical Essays The aim of the present work, as is indicated by its name, is to help the young student in literary criticism. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism As literary criticism the greatest of the Lives are those of Cowley, Dryden and Pope. Dr. Johnson and His Circle The pages of The Bookman, for example, are no longer confined to literary criticism, to essays on bookish topics, to gossip of author and publisher. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing The growing dignity of this department of literature and the Augustan fondness for literary criticism combined to produce a large body of comment on methods of translation. Early Theories of Translation It is evident that this same "humanism" is beginning to manifest itself in politics, religion and even literary criticism. Personality in Literature This diversity of literary criticism, which at first sight tempts us to question the value of the art, is easily traced to its causes. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism He was as liberal in his friendships as in his literary criticisms. My Reminiscences A trivial remark of mine, in the course of some literary criticisms of his, turned his thoughts to the subject of puns. The Lady of the Ice A Novel Throughout the period of the war Lowell wrote much both in prose and verse on behalf of the Union; his work on the "North American" was largely literary criticism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American I fear that literary criticism of the kind that I propose to myself in these chapters on Milton must be classified with the "sciences of conceit." Milton But as a rule literary criticism is confined to literature in the narrower sense; that is to say, to literature that aims at artistic excellence. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism It is the great advantage of that purely literary criticism, which is so little practised and to some extent so unpopular, that it is able to preserve accuracy in this matter. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Such a fact can no more be reached by literary criticism, than can the popularity of Tupper's poetry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The remark may suggest what is the special value of the literary criticism or its bearing upon history. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century In theology, in philosophy, in political thought, and literary criticism, he set currents flowing which are flowing yet. Brief History of English and American Literature It is in fact a monumental piece of literary criticism, sufficient to establish the reputation of many a lesser writer. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Unfortunately this last point is one not of technical "scholarship," but of general literary criticism, and it is certain that the Celticists have not converted all or most students in that subject to their view. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Aristotle’s Poetics and Longinus on the Sublime are classics of literary criticism. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Had he been a German he might have been a Lessing, and the author of the Sublime and Beautiful might, like the author of Laokoon, have stimulated his countrymen by literary criticism. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Pope's literary criticism, too, though verging too often on the commonplace, is generally sound as far as it goes. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Neither will I discuss here the regrets of those critics, which seem to me the most irrelevant thing that could have been said in connection with literary criticism. Notes on My Books "May have been" and "must have been" are phrases of no account to a sound literary criticism, which insists upon "was." The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Of all the bootless quests that literary criticism can undertake, this search for “the original” is the least valuable. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' That "he taught us little" of the things of the spirit, that he knew no cure for the sickness of the soul, were considerations which lay outside the province of literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Already, moreover, he had produced work in literary criticism which by its suggestiveness and originality had attracted much attention, and notably among the youth of Germany. The Youth of Goethe He turned to private tuition and to literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A great outcry was raised, in the last age, against literary criticism of pictures. Romance Two Lectures As for Upton and other such fellows, they are merely musical chautauquans, and their tedious commentaries have little more value than the literary criticisms in the religious weeklies. A Book of Prefaces Too much space is devoted in most literary criticism to the bare facts of biography and the details of essays or novels or histories written by authors. Modern English Books of Power Based on methods of literary criticism, this unique text-book is for those who wish to listen to music with quickened hearing and real understanding. Resonance in Singing and Speaking Such of Poe's works as our great Baudelaire left untranslated—that is to say, the poems and many of the literary criticisms—I hope to make known to France. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. It is not my purpose to notice early literary criticism, of which there is abundant supply. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays As literary criticism, it is almost worthless, in spite of the elaborate allusions and quotations with which the critic—evidently a survivor of the old school—has interlarded his remarks. Early Reviews of English Poets It will remain a moot point whether the Browning or the Dickens is Chesterton's best work of literary criticism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Moreover, he dedicated several chapters to literary criticism of his father's works. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters There was but little literary criticism in the United States at the time Hawthorne's earlier works were published; but among the reviewers Edgar Poe perhaps held the scales the highest. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) But the consequence of all these mean and petty 'personal' views of life is, that sound, unbiased, honest literary criticism is a dead art. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Apart from its distinguished authorship and the strong words of commendation in the final sentence, it possesses slight interest as literary criticism. Early Reviews of English Poets As with all his literary criticism, the most famous critics admitted that he had opened fresh windows on the subject for themselves. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Certain learned college professors were once heard discussing methods of literary criticism and interpretation. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music These graver topics have been floated along by contributions of a lighter kind, by good fiction and conscientious literary criticism. Life of Father Hecker But Ammonius is not a very uncommon name, and we have no reason to suppose that the Neoplatonist Ammonius busied himself with the literary criticism of Homer and Plato. On the Sublime Much of the literary criticism in the first few volumes is inexcusably brutal; fortunately, Blackwood's soon became less rampant in its critical outbursts. Early Reviews of English Poets "Abundance" was a word much used of his work just now, and in the field of literary criticism he was placed high, and had an enthusiastic following. Gilbert Keith Chesterton In the following year appeared Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, a volume of literary criticism interesting now mainly as pointing to maturer work in this field. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. It was in writing this book under his encouragement and correction that I began to learn the first elements of literary criticism. An Introduction to the Study of Browning The terms were borrowed from literary criticism; but even there, in the words of Archbishop Trench, "they either say nothing at all or say something erroneous." How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art It is a truth too seldom recognized that in literary criticism, as in politics, one may detest a man's work while admitting his greatness. Adventures in Criticism But essays on Spenser, Milton, Pope, Gray, Cowper, Burns, Wordsworth, "Humour in Fiction," "Boys' Literature," Sir Walter Scott, Browning, the English Dramatists, showed a range and a quality of literary criticism alike surprising. Gilbert Keith Chesterton If he had had to be a dry-as-dust in order to be a writer on politics and history, Mr. Wilson would have preferred to turn his attention to biography and literary criticism. President Wilson's Addresses We could have wished that our duty as translators and editors had not extended beyond such mere occasional scientific or literary criticism. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men This method of depreciating literary performPg 39ances which one dislikes, of conveying dissent from literary doctrines which one considers erroneous, had fallen out of use in our literary criticism. Matthew Arnold I have, no doubt, the unenviable advantage over you of having wasted three mortal months in reading all the literary criticism extant of the first quarter of this century. Adventures in Criticism Its telegraphic intelligence is good, and in dramatic and literary criticisms it is second only to the Argus in Australia. Town Life in Australia As literary criticism this is correct, if it means that the more ancient sûtras are older than the oldest Abhidharma books. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 But the Nineteenth Century witnessed a very thorough application to the Scriptures of the same methods of historical and literary criticism to which all ancient documents were subjected. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking We must now turn our attention to his performances in the field of literary criticism; and we begin in the year 1853. Matthew Arnold The chapter on the Shakespearean Controversy gives first a survey of the development of modern scientific literary criticism from Herder to Taine and Saint Beuve. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway What is almost more important is that the average literary criticism of William IV.’s reign and of the first twenty years of her present Majesty’s was exceedingly bad. Matthew Arnold It was marked with that fatally superficial and mechanical character which distinguished all literary criticism in Europe before the time of Lessing in Germany, and of Wordsworth and Coleridge in England. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Then in our enthusiasm for physical sciences for a time we read more German, but not German of the best quality, and in another line we were influenced by German literary criticism. The Education of Catholic Girls The grace and charm of this poem come from regions beyond the range of literary criticism, and the heart shrinks from making a revelation of the emotions which it awakens. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 "It's been a great pleasure to meet you," she said, holding out her hand, "you're—well, you're 'unlike,' as they say in literary criticisms." The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary But, above all, he had proclaimed with undoubting authority, and had exemplified with remarkable and varied skill, a new or at least a very greatly altered kind of literary criticism. Matthew Arnold His creative impulse failed him, and he became more and more involved in theology, metaphysics, political philosophy, and literary criticism. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Marvellous it is to observe the splendid quality of the literary criticisms which were sent to the great ones by men who had no intention of writing or selling a line. Side Lights Some of the very best literary criticism of recent years has been aroused by admiration for Henry James. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 The gentlemen, who, in the name of the party, have passed sentence on Mr. Burke's book, in the light of literary criticism, are judges above all challenge. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The English literary criticism of 1830-1860, speaking in round numbers, is curiously and to this day rather unintelligibly bad. Matthew Arnold Nor need we concern ourselves further with literary criticism or the history of opinion. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century We have seen that, during the classical period, "Gothic," as a term in literary criticism, was synonymous with barbarous, lawless, and tawdry. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century But, anyhow, I would give much to have a large homogeneous body of English literary criticism to read at. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Not only did scholarship restore the classics and encourage literary criticism;026 it also restored the text of the Bible, and encouraged theological criticism. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots His literary criticism was somewhat harder and drier than Mr Arnold’s; but the two agreed in acuteness, lucidity, and a wide, if not quite a thoroughgoing, use of the comparative method. Matthew Arnold Blair's lectures treat principally of style and literary criticism, and are excellent for their analysis of some of the best authors, and for happy illustrations from their works. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction He was the originator of a natural, realistic, and sympathetic school of literary criticism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) I do not mean a paper devoted to literary criticisms chiefly, but chiefly to creative work. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Both literary criticism and psychological analysis have contributed to the widening of sympathy. The Unity of Civilization He felt imperfect sympathy with Luther, and his literary criticism would have made no reformation. The Life of Froude Brooklyn Daily Eagle: "A volume of singularly acute and readable literary criticism." Women and War Work The Function of Criticism It is curious and interesting to find our younger men of letters actively concerned with the present condition of literary criticism. Aspects of Literature Thus his curt, conventional remarks about Zola might have been composed for a leading article in the Morning Post, instead of for a volume of literary criticism. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 What can I tell you in the way of literary criticism, to fill out the picture I have attempted to make? The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 A piece of literary criticism adorns the entry for September 4th. The Life of Froude The morality of the times is strikingly exemplified even in its literary criticism. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the very pith and marrow of Aristotle's literary criticism is a system of moral values derived from his contemplation of life. Aspects of Literature In this paper the approach of literary criticism is abandoned completely, the author feeling that the controversy over the stage has already been obscured by wit and learning. A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) But his mind was preoccupied with plans for a new periodical—this time a journal of literary criticism, modeled somewhat after such English publications as "The Athenæum" and "The Academy." The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him His "thrasonical boast" was sober truth, and he stands above military or literary criticism, a lesson and a model. The Life of Froude He was looking over the Reader, and enjoying the admirable literary criticisms, some three months after the return of his book, when his eye was attracted by a quoted passage in one of the notices. The Hill of Dreams So it is that the philosophic part of the specifically literary criticism of the Biographia takes us nowhere in particular. Aspects of Literature He vindicated the principle for which he contended: he compelled the newspapers to keep within the pale of literary criticism; he confirmed the saying of President Jackson, that “desperate courage makes one a majority.” The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 From the point of view of mere literary criticism we are apt to be more observant of their defects than their beauties. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Of Maurice Sand, gifted son of an inspired mother, there is an exquisite chapter of literary criticism tempered with maternity. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 It may be that, in literary criticism, there can be no temple. The Art of Letters There was the literary criticism of Mr. Hilaire Belloc, whose ideal is the peasant proprietor of France, freed from governmental control, a self-sufficient producer of all his requirements. The History of the Fabian Society I have done little in the way of literary criticism, but I felt that a dry collection of names and dates was the very thing I had to avoid. Chapters on Jewish Literature In modern times so few children's tales have survived because they have been written mainly from the point of view of the subject and of the child without regard to the standards of literary criticism. A Study of Fairy Tales Steele's teaching on morals and right living enters intimately into his literary criticism. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 His book marks a most interesting stage in the development of English literary criticism. The Art of Letters French literary criticism was just then at a very low ebb. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 His various treatises on logic were comprised in the "Organon"; he dealt with psychology and metaphysics; with rhetoric and the principles of literary criticism. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Noteworthy example of literary criticism in one of the most Interesting of literary fields.... The Theory of the Theatre Of Coleridge as poet there is unfortunately little more to relate, for during the remainder of his life he devoted himself mainly to philosophy and literary criticism, with occasional work in journalism. Selections from Five English Poets It is a bold and masculine essay on literary criticism, written in a style of quite brilliant, if old-fashioned, rhetoric. The Art of Letters Châteaubriand himself, in that portion of the Genius of Christianity in which he eloquently discourses on literary criticism, only follows the path opened by Diderot…. The Bed-Book of Happiness He has learnt our tongue well enough to give us some literary criticisms of value, notably upon the Irish theatre and the poetry of Mr W.B. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" If in literary criticism the impressionist method is falling into disfavour, in the criticism of music and painting it holds the field. Since Cézanne Of Arnold's literary criticism, the most notable single piece is the famous essay On Translating Homer, which deserves careful study for the enlightenment it offers concerning many of the fundamental questions of style. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems In matters of historical and literary criticism, a certain instinct is needed, conscious or unconscious, perhaps more often the latter, which without a serious interest and a long experience no man is likely to have. The Jesus of History Some of the best literary criticism we have of the period, he presents through the medium of the parasite rhetorician Agamemnon. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature He held the chair of esthetics at the Ècole des Beaux Arts, and wrote a large number of works in history, travel, and literary criticism. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations It is not surprising, then, that Austria should have compared so unfavorably with Germany in philology, history, philosophy and literary criticism until within our own times. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 The latter portion of it is mainly devoted to literary criticism, or compliments, having for subject the author's works or those of his praisers; and is weak and flimsy to a degree. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 His crowning glory in the matter of literary criticism is that, as Ruskin told us, he was the first man in the literary circles of London to assert the value of Modern Painters. Sydney Smith Of Hoffman he says, in a paper on literary criticism: “He has many of the qualities of a true critic, conscientiousness, independence, ideas, an opinion of his own.” Essays Æsthetical Can there be any more scathing satire upon the value of literary criticism? The Humour of Homer and Other Essays In the division of literary criticism the endeavor has been to illustrate Arnold's cosmopolitanism by essays of first-rate importance dealing with the four literatures with which he was well acquainted. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold The principles and processes of literary criticism were applied to the Hebrew writings. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible This inquiry must necessarily lead us beyond the sphere of literary criticism proper, but it is a task which one who has undertaken to give an account of pastoral literature has no right to shirk. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England In no country has literary criticism more life than in France. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The literary criticisms of the Athenæum are characteristically free and aggressive, particularly in the frequent sneers at the flat "homely" poetry of sandy North Germany. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It is natural, therefore, that we should find in his criticism of society a repetition of the ideas already encountered in his literary criticism. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold To judge rightly about it, is necessarily a problem of literary criticism; which has both to interpret the Old Scriptures and to establish how much of the biography of Jesus in the New is credible. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed The Armed vision: a study in the methods of modern literary criticism. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December Since it has been his good-fortune to be numbered among the illustrious Forty he has several times attempted literary criticism, but never so extensively as in his last work, "Questions d'Art et de Morale." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 |
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