Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge - Hardcover

Engell, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067430943X ISBN 13: 9780674309432

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

Dryden to Coleridge

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Críticas:

This imporant book is concerned with an imporant subject, which it handles with authority, learning, and originality. New York Review of Books A learned and important book that treats, in more copious and wide-ranging detail than any other study now available, the evolution of a major idea in Western culture. Keats-Shelley Journal Engell brings the light of scholarship to the process by which the idea of "imagination" replaced the great chain of being as 'a force, an energy'...A valuable, serious addition to the history of ideas Kirkus Reviews This is a book of deep learning and bold generalization...the first detailed map of an enormous territory with all the main ranges, riviers, and tributary screams filled in Times Literary Supplement

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James Engell has prepared the first broad treatment of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century British criticism to appear in a generation, presenting the views of scores of writers on a variety of questions, many of which remain live issues today. While offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engell demonstrates that eighteenth-century criticism cannot be represented by just a few major critics or by generalizations about Augustan taste, neoclassical rules, or "common sense." He presents a complex and highly varied body of theoretical writing and practical application by dozens of critics including Rymer, Addison, Welsted, Ramsay, Hurd, Gerard, Newbery, Campbell, Blair, Beattie, Jeffrey, and Hazlitt. He also analyzes the continued relevance of their critical work, drawing connections with modern writers such as Eliot, Frye, Saussure, Barthes, Culler, Bakhtin, and Levi-Strauss. Engell concludes with a stimulating essay on the nature and function of the critical process itself. For students and scholars conversant with modern critical theory, Forming the Critical Mind will offer some surprising and interesting comparisons.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 067430943X
• ISBN 13: 9780674309432
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336