马修·阿诺德(Matthew Arnold)（1822年--1888年）英国近代诗人、教育家，文学批评家。他任牛津大学诗学教授长达十年。诗歌灵感得之于古希腊作家，歌德，华兹华斯，写过大量文学，教育，社会问题的随笔，猛烈抨击英国生活和文化方面的地方主义，庸俗风气，功利主义，成为当时知识界的批评之声，影响了托·斯·艾略特，利维斯等一代文人。1849年，他发表第一部诗集《迷途浪子》(The Strayed Reveller)。他只能利用工作之余的闲暇进行文学创作，但即便是业余之作却已使他得以跻身于维多利亚时代主要作家的行列。其诗歌和评论对时弊很敏感，并能做出理性的评判。阿诺德的诗歌创作主要集中在1850年代，1860年后主要从事散文写作，写下了大量的文学评论和社会评论作品。阿诺德的诗作主要收集在《诗集》(Poems, 1853)、《诗歌二集》(Poems:...(展开全部)

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)

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)

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)

This collection of 17 of Alan Colquhoun's essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades, comprising a virtual "theory of Modernism" in architecture. Preface by Kenneth Frampton. Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years. Since the early 1950s...(展开全部)

This collection of 17 of Alan Colquhoun's essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades, comprising a virtual "theory of Modernism" in architecture. Preface by Kenneth Frampton. Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years. Since the early 1950s...(展开全部)

A collection of essays and literary reviews taken from over three decades of the author's work. The essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the new criticism to the much debated newsreading and new historicism.

In Blindness and Insight de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism. Like a classic, this book commands attention as a book that should be reread, and reread carefully. This edition, with its new introduction by Godzich and five additional essays by de Man...(展开全部)