The Historical Novel
10 best books like The Historical Novel (György Lukács): The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Gothic, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, The Function of Criticism, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Poets in a Landscape, Theory of Prose, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self, Intertextuality, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
| Author | Hayden White |
| ISBN | 0801841151 |
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to...
| Author | Fred Botting |
| ISBN | 0415092191 |
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide:
* Explains the transformations of the genre through history
* Outlines all...
| 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 | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 1844670554 |
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida.
This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethical, and literary judgements...
| 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,...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
| Author | Victor Shklovsky |
| ISBN | 0916583643 |
Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English...
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0199266840 |
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic,...
| Author | Graham Allen |
| ISBN | 0415174759 |
No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional ideas about reading or writing undisturbed.
Graham...
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...
| Author | Franco Moretti |
| ISBN | 1859842240 |
Moretti's book is in two parts. The first, in two long chapters, is relatively traditional interpretive literary criticism, examining the structure of narrative forms and the shaping presence in them of place (e.g. the borders of the emergent nation-state in Scott, the resorts of newly national...
| Author | René Girard |
| ISBN | 0801818303 |
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...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231048076 |
Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism."...
Culture and Society, 1780-1950
| Author | Raymond Williams |
| ISBN | 0231057016 |
From the last decades of the eighteenth century to the final words of modernism, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industry, democracy, class, art and culture. The meanings of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and the era in which their implications...
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...
| Author | Patricia Waugh |
| ISBN | 0415030064 |
حالا که نمیتوانیم به داستان همانند تاریخ بنگریم، آیا میتوانیم به داستان همانند واقعیت نگاه کنیم؟ آیا شخصیت هایی که در داستانها خلق می شوند، ورای شخصیت...
| Author | Perry Anderson |
| ISBN | 1859842224 |
A history of the postmodern, and the role of Fredric Jameson in shaping it.
Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity....
