The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
10 best books like The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (M.H. Abrams): The Rhetoric of Fiction, Selected Essays, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, The Contours of American History, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Anatomy of Criticism, The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
| Author | Wayne C. Booth |
| ISBN | 0226065588 |
The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151803870 |
The man's critical faculties were machete sharp and scalpel precise. Every essay in here reads like the work of somebody with a desk full of papers who throws them all on the floor in one motion and starts from scratch. The craftsmanship and attack strategy is consistently illuminating. Reading his...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 0393312569 |
Patriotic Gore (1962) is the big book of Wilson’s final decade and in the dust jacket photo he looks just the toothless, growling old cuss one meets in “The Critic in Winter,” Updike’s worthwhile review of the late journals. Wilson spent his last summers in a decaying corner of Upstate New York,...
| Author | William Appleman Williams |
| ISBN | 0393305619 |
William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with...
| 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...
| 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 | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0691069999 |
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...
| 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...
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...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202305 |
Prose essays ranging in theme from Erik the Red and Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln about what it means to be an American.
William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. He found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning,...
| Author | Walter Jackson Bate |
| ISBN | 1887178767 |
W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the biographer's art and the first great modern life of Johnson. Bate's work is literary biography at its finest, delving into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. When first...
| Author | Herbert David Croly |
| ISBN | 1555530621 |
Herbert Croly was a journalist and writer who wrote his most significant work just after the beginning of the twentieth century. He makes the case most simply: there have been two contending forces within liberalism fighting for the soul of the country from the very beginning. That is, there have been...
| Author | Lawrence Gowing |
| ISBN | 0520212762 |
I simply adore Vermeer.
Many years ago I saw The Astronomer, at the Louvre, and I have never looked back. Since then I have seen both Lady Standing at a Virginal and Lady Seated at a Virginal [National Gallery], The Allegory of Faith, Portrait of a Young Womand, Woman with a Water Jug and A Girl Asleep...
| Author | Walter Lippmann |
| ISBN | 0766195589 |
1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses...
| Author | David Cecil |
| ISBN | 0517537826 |
David Cecil's classic biographies The Young Melbourne (and the Story of his Marriage with Lady Caroline Lamb) and Lord M (or The Later Life of Lord Melbourne) are here published in a single volume, as the author had always intended.
Melbourne, who lived from 1779-1848, was one of the most curious...
| Author | Gunnar Myrdal |
| ISBN | 1560008563 |
In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American Dilemma', refers to the moral contradiction of a nation...
| Author | Ian Hacking |
| ISBN | 0521380146 |
In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became...
| 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 | Erwin Panofsky |
| ISBN | 0064300250 |
Gran bel saggio, grande classico degli studi sull'iconologia (e della storia dell'arte in genere).Dopo una ricca introduzione dove Panofsky spiega la genesi dell'opera e il suo metodo di lavoro, si passa a una serie di saggi dedicati, nell'ordine, dine, a:
- Preistoria umana in due cicli...
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 | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0374527172 |
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from...
