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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457073403321

Titolo

Modern British and Irish criticism and theory [[electronic resource] ] : a critical guide / / edited by Julian Wolfreys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50158-8

9786610501588

0-7486-2680-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfreysJulian <1958->

Disciplina

801.950941

Soggetti

Criticism - Great Britain

Criticism - Ireland

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772±1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822±1888); 2. John Ruskin (1819±1900) and Walter Pater (1839±1894): Aesthetics and the State; 3. Oscar Wilde (1854±1900): Aesthetics and Criticism; 4. The Cambridge School: Sir ArthurQuiller- Couch (1863±1944), I. A. Richards (1893± 1979) and William Empson (1906±1984); 5. James Joyce (1882±1941): Theories of Literature; 6. Virginia Woolf (1882±1941): Aesthetics; 7. T. S. Eliot (1888±1965); 8. After the `Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895±1978), Scrutiny (1932±1952) and Literary Studies in Britain

9. J. L. Austin (1911±1960) and Speech-Act Theory10. Richard Hoggart (1918±), Raymond Williams (1921±1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies; 11. Raymond Williams (1921±1988); 12. Stuart Hall (1932±); 13. Terry Eagleton (1943±); 14. Screen (1971±); 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy; 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain; 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism; 18. Cultural Studies; 19. Cultural Material

Sommario/riassunto

A guide to the development of literary theory in Britain and Ireland, this book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, as well as academics



working in the field. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, it contains essays that address the rise and significance of poetics, and literary and cultural studies. Each essay includes a further reading list.