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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment

10 best books like Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment (Ivor A. Richards): Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, On Poetry And Poets, The Use and Abuse of Literature, The Sea and the Mirror, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, A Defence of Poetry, Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, Critical Terms for Literary Study, ألبير كامو

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0521645840
I LOVED this book. I got it through ILL through my county library, which I've never tried before. C.S.Lewis is characteristically wonderful, and in this book he discusses the La3amon's Brut (Layamon) which I had never heard of before, but it is close to one of the first depictions of the Arthur tale. It...
On Poetry And Poets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571089836
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
The Use and Abuse of Literature
AuthorMarjorie Garber
ISBN0375424342
As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.
 
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The Sea and the Mirror
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0691123845
Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
AuthorCleanth Brooks
ISBN0156957051
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
A Defence of Poetry
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0199110220
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:

"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN0300088329
This book is chock full of great information about poetry. It talks about poetic devices, different forms and styles of poetry, and different sorts of feet, and all sorts of useful and relevant information. The problem is, this book is not organized at all, and the explanations are all given in the forms...
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity
AuthorPrue Shaw
ISBN0871407426
Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.
This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the...
Critical Terms for Literary Study
AuthorFrank Lentricchia
ISBN0226472035
Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six...
ألبير كامو
AuthorGermaine Brée
في الرابع من كانون الثاني عام 1960 توفي البير كامو عن ستة وأربعين عاماً، ولم يكن قد مر على منحه جائزة نوبل للأدب إلا سنتان، فقد اصطدمت السيارة التي كان ذاهباً...
Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis
AuthorJohn Piper
ISBN1433542943
Herbert - Whitefield - Lewis

In the sixth volume of the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic effort by looking at three influential Christians whose words magnificently display a commitment to truth and a love of beauty.

Examining the lives...
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
AuthorHenry Nash Smith
ISBN0674939557
The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special...
Inventing Ireland
AuthorDeclan Kiberd
ISBN0674463641
Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries...
How to Read a Poem
AuthorTerry Eagleton
ISBN1405151412
Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.


Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and...
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens with 'What is a Classic?' in which Coetzee explores...
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
AuthorStanley Fish
ISBN0674467264
Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers...
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
AuthorRaman Selden
ISBN0582894107
Reflecting the continuing change and development in modern literacy theory, the key features of this book includes its clarity, brevity, equal coverage of the main literary theories and useful bibliographies of further reading.

Literature students will find its clearly defined sections...
Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
AuthorRené Girard
ISBN0801818303
Jale Parla, Orhan Koçak, Nurdan Gürbilek gibi edebiyat aleminin önemli şahsiyetlerinin hakkında çok konuştuğu Girard'ın bu eserini nihayet ben de okudum. Söz konusu eleştirmenlerin en çok eleştirdikleri Girard'ın her türlü kuram ve akımdan azade kendi yolunu (kendi sistematiğini...
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method
AuthorKenneth Burke
ISBN0520001923
From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them are explicitly...
Five Approaches Of Literary Criticism
AuthorWilbur S. Scott
ISBN0020536801
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