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This volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, first
published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the critical
tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of
the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats),
continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters),
and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and
others who helped form the modern institutions of literary culture.
The core period covered is 1910-60, but explicit connections are
made with nineteenth-century traditions and there is discussion of
the implications of modernism and the New Criticism for our own
time, with its inherited formalism, anti-sentimentalism, and
astringency of tone. The book provides a companion to the other
twentieth-century volumes of The Cambridge History of Literary
Criticism, and offers a systematic and stimulating coverage of the
development of the key literary-critical movements, with chapters
on groups and genres as well as on individual critics.
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Emma (Paperback, New Ed)
Jane Austen; Introduction by A. Walton Litz
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel's conclusion, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned notes on the text.
So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams'
radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding
Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is
the first.
The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in
the field of modern literature, provide a different and more
complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight
essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz;
"The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land:' by
Richard Ellmann;" The Waste Land: Paris 1922," by Helen Gardner;
"New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land," by Robert
Langbaum; "Precipitating Eliot," by Robert M. Adams; "Fear in the
Way: The Design of Eliot's Drama," by Michael Goldman; and
"Anglican Eliot," by Donald Davie. Originally published in 1973.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in
the field of modern literature, provide a different and more
complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight
essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz;
"The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land:' by
Richard Ellmann;" The Waste Land: Paris 1922," by Helen Gardner;
"New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land," by Robert
Langbaum; "Precipitating Eliot," by Robert M. Adams; "Fear in the
Way: The Design of Eliot's Drama," by Michael Goldman; and
"Anglican Eliot," by Donald Davie. Originally published in 1973.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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Dubliners (Paperback)
James Joyce, Robert Scholes, A. Walton Litz
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R153
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"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own."
-- James Joyce, in a letter to his brother
With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.
The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and bibliography by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed Preface to Dubliners.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
"Modern American Women Writers" is a rich examination of how the
lives of thirty-two of America's leading writers shaped the
literature they produced. The essays in this book are by the best
scholars in the field of women's studies and combine illuminating
biographical detail with thoughtful discussions of each author's
work. Based on the acclaimed hardcover, this concise edition of
"Modern American Women Writers" is a unique look at a century of
women's contributions to the American literary tradition. As the
distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter says in the
introduction, "Women have revised the fundamental themes and
conventions of American literature, including its myths of
individuality, community, language, and the frontier. Feminine
imagination and feminine energy are part of our cultural heritage,
and any history of American literature that excludes women's
contribution cannot be complete."
This collection of critical and biographical articles covers
hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present
day. Signed essays, 12-15 pages in length by noted scholars,
provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers and
works of American writers. Each Supplement covers approximately 20
additional authors.
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