IT PRESENTS THE WORKS OF THE MAJORITY OF SIGNIFICANT AND INSIGNIFICANT AUTHORS FROM EACH PERIOD IN A WAY THAT IS EXHAUSTIVE. IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING A BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF EACH WORK, THIS BOOK ILLUSTRATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FROM ITS INCEPTION UP TO ITS WIDESPREAD USE IN LITERATURE. A HISTORY OF THE LITERATURE THAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAT IS BOTH THOROUGH AND ORDERED. STARTING WITH THE PRE-CHAUCERIAN PERIOD AND CONTINUING ALL THE WAY UP TO THE PRESENT DAY, THE AREA OF STUDY KNOWN AS HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FOLLOWS, IN A SYSTEMATIC AND SEQUENTIAL FASHION, BOTH THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH AS A LANGUAGE AND THE FORMATION OF VARIOUS SUB-FIELDS WITHIN THE SUBJECT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. IT DOES THIS BY STARTING WITH THE PRE-CHAUCERIAN PERIOD AND CONTINUING ALL THE WAY UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. THIS BOOK'S OVERALL IS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY, BEGINNING IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND CONTINUING UP TO THE CURRENT DAY. THE CATEGORIES, GENRES, AND TIMEFRAMES THAT ARE USED IN SUCH STUDIES THE MOST COMMONLY HAVE BEEN PRESERVED, AND BOXED ITEMS HAVE BEEN ADDED THAT PLACE AN EMPHASIS ON PARTICULAR 'MOMENTS' IN THIS HISTORY'S PROGRESSION. A LOOK OF THE MANNER IN WHICH ENGLISH LITERATURE HAS EVOLVED OVER THE SPAN OF A NUMBER OF CENTURIES FROM ITS EARLY STAGES. THE BOOK STARTS WITH THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD AND FINISHES WITH LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IS TRACKED THROUGH EACH ERA, AND THE WAYS IN WHICH IT EVOLVED THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF HISTORY ARE DISCUSSED. IT ANALYZES THE MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY GENRES OF EACH AGE, SUCH AS POETRY, PROSE, AND THEATER, AS WELL AS ITS RENOWNED PROPONENTS, AND IT GIVES A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE REMARKABLE WORKS THAT WERE CREATED DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME.

This Book Examines And Evaluates The Critical Position Of R.S. Crane, The Leader Of The Chicago School Of Formalistic Criticism. Crane And His Colleagues In The University Of Chicago Set A New Trend In Literary Criticism In The Very Heyday Of The New Criticism. His Theory Of Criticism, Popularly Known As Critical Pluralism, Is An Answer To The Inevitable Limitations Of Monistic Criticism Including The New Criticism. Crane Shows Us The Way Toward A Multiple Response To A Literary Text, And Thereby Points Out The Significance Or Utility Of The Diverse Critical Theories. In The Field Of Practical Criticism Also Crane Has Left A Genuine Mark By Emphasizing The Need Of A Formal-Structural Approach To The Literary Texts. The Book Will Be Of Immense Help To The Scholars And Literary Critics.

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In the time span of last 30 or 40 years literary theory has been playing a central role in academic studies that are related to social science and humanities. Various competing or non-competing perspectives, principals and approaches granted most of the scholar awareness about importance of methodological concerns in literary theory. Criticism no longer confines itself to the study of literature, it discourses are now stretched beyond literature. It also covers anthropology, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, political science and much else. However, for literary researchers it covers all forms of cultural productions, despite them being literary or non-literary. In a traditional manner criticism still covers exegesis, evaluation and interpretation but it is now stretching its range over theory. Whether you consider theory as a discussion or debates on the basis of certain definition, as the search for necessary and sufficient values for critical practice, or consider theory as a process for making social, historical or ideological pre-suppositions. No matter which option you chose, it will be hard to figure out a clear boundary between theory and criticism. However, they stumble into each other on various situations.

Marxism initiated a new era not only for people to fight for socialist future, but also for each discipline of sciences to witness profound changes. In such a context, literature, which has always been closely related to politics, will inevitably move toward a new direction. This book is composed of two parts. Part One studies the development of literary theories in contemporary China from a Marxist perspective. It introduces the basic ideas of Marxist literary theories as well as their spread and development in China, such as the combination of the theories and Chinese revolutionary literature. Moreover, it discusses the challenges facing Marxist literary theories in the 21st century under the background of diversification of literature and art, in terms of theory and practice, and high technologies which brought about electronic writing and digital communication of literary works. The second part elucidates the author’s insights into major issues concerning literary theories (e.g. the relationship between literature and people, literature and reality, perception and rationality in literary creation, etc.) This book will appeal to scholars and students of literary aesthetics and Chinese literary and cultural studies. People who are interested in history of contemporary Chinese literature will also benefit from this book.

Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol’ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.

This sophisticated and wide-ranging look at literary criticism addresses the major theorists of today and proposes a constructive approach to challenging critical debates. Disclosing conflict as the inevitable outcome of historical change, Suresh Raval refuses the stark either-or choice between the foundationalist stance, which seeks to find the right answers, and the relativist position, which denies the possibility of identifying right and wrong. Raval explores the question of conflict in literary criticism and theory by analyzing how different theories have treated key issues, not to resolve these problems but to show why they resist decisive solution.

Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The new edition has been updated throughout, including new or expanded coverage of Marxist theory, disability studies, affect theory, and Critical Race Theory.