The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
10 best books like The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Northrop Frye): Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, The Art of Biblical Narrative, Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0771008724 |
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0198812981 |
This book is intended for students of English literature at `A' level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century..
| Author | Cleanth Brooks |
| ISBN | 0156957051 |
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...
Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective...
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| ISBN | 0195136128 |
s/t: With a New Epilogue
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0195014715 |
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?
M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
| Author | Ian P. Watt |
| ISBN | 0520230698 |
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.
In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 0374529272 |
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust,...
The Art of Biblical Narrative is the best critical work I have read. It does more than just explain. It teaches. It encourages. It makes the reader want to read the [Hebrew] Bible for the pure pleasure of practicing what has been learned, to discover the literary secrets of the Bible and to enjoy anew the...
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0140138323 |
History
Any reader of literary fiction from the last 120 years will sooner or later encounter the distinction between Modernism and Post-Modernism.
My teenage years coincided with the 1970's. During this period I became a consumer and advocate of Modernism, whether or not I could...
Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition,...
A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught...
| Author | Lionel Trilling |
| ISBN | 0151511977 |
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays...
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
| Author | Gérard Genette |
| ISBN | 0803270291 |
By definition, a palimpsest is “a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible.” Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gérard Genette’s most important works, examines...
| Author | René Wellek |
| ISBN | 0156890844 |
«باید یقین داشته باشیم که لذت ادبیات لذتی نیست که از میان لذتهای ممکن دیگر برگزیده شده باشد، بلکه لذتی است «والاتر». زیرا محصول کوشش والاتری است که همان...
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
| Author | Stanley Fish |
| ISBN | 0674467264 |
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...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0195112210 |
Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts...
| Author | Wolfgang Iser |
| ISBN | 0801823714 |
تخيل معي أن ثمة عدسة ترصدك وانت مُنهمكاً في قراءة نص أدبي ، التقطت لك صورة خاطفة ، تسلمت الصورة وتساءلت ترى ما الذي كان يحدث في تلك اللحظة ؟
هذا الكتاب يجيبك...
| Author | George Steiner |
| ISBN | 0226772349 |
Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.
"A real tour de force. . . . All the...
| Author | Jeffrey Overstreet |
| ISBN | 0830743154 |
In the style of a cinematic travel journal, film columnist and critic Jeffrey Overstreet of Christianity Today and lookingcloser.org leads readers down paths less traveled to explore some of the best films you’ve never seen.
Examining a feast of movies, from blockbusters to buried treasure,...
