What is Literature? (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Anthology
Redaktion: Robson, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. 'What is literature?' is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. What is Literature? reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art. The anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms, provocations and mysteries. What is Literature? brings together in one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring fascination with the idea of literature. This important guide: * Contains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the topic of literature * Includes leading writers from ancient times to the most recent thinkers on literature and criticism * Encourages readers to reflect on the varied meanings of "literature" What is Literature? A Critical Anthology is a unique collection of texts that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and literary criticism in the European tradition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118606889
• Artikelnr.: 59371685

Autorenporträt

MARK ROBSON is the Chair of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Dundee, Scotland, where he also teaches philosophy and visual culture. He founded and is the Director of the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures at Dundee, and is author and editor of several books including Theatre & Death, The Sense of Early Modern Writing and (with James Loxley) Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 1 Hamburg Dramaturgy (1769) 8 G. E. Lessing 2 Of the
Standard of Taste (1777) 32 David Hume 3 Critique of Judgment (1790) 45
Immanuel Kant 4 On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) 65 Friedrich
Schiller 5 On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) and Philosophical Fragments
(1798-1800) 74 Friedrich Schlegel 6 Lectures on Dramatic Art (1811) 88 A.
W. Schlegel 7 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems
(1802) 104 William Wordsworth 8 Biographia Literaria (1817) 124 Samuel
Taylor Coleridge 9 Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art (1835) 134 G. W. F.
Hegel 10 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) 148 Matthew
Arnold 11 The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 166 Friedrich Nietzsche 12 The Art of
Fiction (1884) 188 Henry James 13 Crisis of Verse (1897) 202 Stéphane
Mallarmé 14 Art as Technique (1917) 210 Viktor Shklovsky 15 The Uncanny
(1919) 226 Sigmund Freud 16 Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) and
The Function of Criticism (1923) 252 T. S. Eliot 17 A Room of One's Own
(1929) 265 Virginia Woolf 18 The Storyteller (1936): Reflections on the
Works of Nikolai Leskov 282 Walter Benjamin 19 Pierre Menard, Author of the
Quixote 299 Jorge Luis Borges 20 What is Literature? (1948) 306 Jean-Paul
Sartre 21 Literature and the Right to Death (1948) 320 Maurice Blanchot 22
Language (1950) 349 Martin Heidegger 23 Trying to Understand Endgame (1958)
363 Theodor W. Adorno 24 The Meridian (1960) 389 Paul Celan 25 What is an
Author? (1969) 398 Michel Foucault 26 Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways
Out/Forays (1975) 411 Hélène Cixous 27 What is a Minor Literature? (1975)
426 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 28 Literature and Life (1993) 437
Gilles Deleuze 29 The Literary Absolute (1978) 441 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
and Jean-Luc Nancy 30 Orientalism (1978) 459 Edward W. Said 31
Autobiography as De-facement (1979) 479 Paul de Man 32 Che cos'è la poesia?
(1988) and Before the Law (1982) 489 Jacques Derrida 33 Signs Taken for
Wonders (1986): Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside
Delhi, May 1817 519 Homi K. Bhabha 34 What is the History of Literature?
(1997) 538 Stephen Greenblatt 35 A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999)
558 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 36 Literature for the Planet (2001) 576 Wai
Chee Dimock 37 The Politics of Literature (2003) 596 Jacques Rancière 38
Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing (2013) 609 Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Index 621