Wellek essays (some never-before published); footnotes throughout text; bibliography (of Wellek's works); 2 indices (names; topics + terms); author biography w/b+w photograph; "throughout, the documentation is massive, the breadth of intelligence masterful. Indeed, several of these articles have already become central documents, established points of reference + recourse, for t...(展开全部)

14 essays cover literary theory, criticism, and history, concepts of form and structure, the Baroque, Romanticism, realism, positivism, comparative literature, and American and twentieth-century criticism.

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. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient ti...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Reissue of this classic work in the development of modern criticism which argues that literary criticism is essentially a branch of psychology, dealing with the states of mind induced by the experiences communicated by art.

In Concepts of Justice D. D. Raphael gives a philosophical survey of the development of the idea of justice. While the framework is historical, the aim is philosophical analysis and criticism. Part I begins with 'Ancient Roots': justice in the Bible, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, in the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and among jurists and theologians in the Middle Ages. Part II, '...(展开全部)

In Concepts of Justice D. D. Raphael gives a philosophical survey of the development of the idea of justice. While the framework is historical, the aim is philosophical analysis and criticism. Part I begins with 'Ancient Roots': justice in the Bible, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, in the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and among jurists and theologians in the Middle Ages. Part II, '...(展开全部)

This book investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was "qi" 奇, literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraor...(展开全部)