A grammar of literary criticism
Subtitle: essays in definition of vocabulary, concepts, and aims.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 606
Subjects: Criticism; Literature
Table of contents: title: Heroic mode. Some characteristics of literary epic / C.M. Bowra -- Discourses on the heroic poem / Tasso -- The epic spirit / E.M.W. Tillyard -- The vanishing hero / Sean O'Faolain -- Tragic mode. Poetics / Aristotle -- Hegel's theory of tragedy ; The substance of Shakespearean tragedy / A.C. Bradley -- The tragic form ; Tragedy : Dostoevski to Faulkner / Richard B. Sewall -- Comic mode. An essay on comedy / George Meredith -- Laughter / Henri Bergson -- Our new sense of the comic / Wylie Sypher -- The boundaries of comedy / L.J. Potts -- Lyric mode. Lyric poetry / Harold DeWolf Fuller -- The "lyric" / Kenneth Burke -- The faces of the poet / George T. Wright -- The nature of metaphysical poetry / Herbert Read -- The grounds of criticism in poetry / John Dennis -- Classicism. A dissertation upon poetry / Samuel Johnson -- The classic and neo-classic premises / W.J. Bate -- The terms classic and romantic / Irving Babbitt -- Romanticism and classicism / T.E. Hulme -- Preliminary problems / Yvor Winters -- Classic, romantic, and modern / Jacques Barzun -- On the sublime / Longinus -- Romanticism. An essay on the genius and writings of pope / Joseph Warton -- On the discrimination of romanticisms / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- On Wordsworth and the Locke tradition / Basil Willey -- The reality of perception / S.T. Coleridge -- Preface to the lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- Changing metaphors of mind / M.H. Abrams -- Romanticism as a modern tradition / Robert Langbaum -- Realism. Realism versus romanticism / William Dean Howells -- Realism and the aegis of science / William Van O-Connor -- What is realism? / Harry Levin -- Naturalism. The experimental novel / Emile Zola -- A natural history of American naturalism / Malcolm Cowley -- The naturalism of vandover and the brute / C.C. Walcutt -- Surrealism. Surrealism / Georges Lemaitre -- Introduction to surrealism / Herbert Read -- The functions of stream of consciousness / Robert Humphrey -- Symbolism, allegory, and myth. Naturalism and symbolism / Albert Cook -- The symbolism of poetry / William Butler Yeats -- Settling the colonel's hash / Mary McCarthy -- Symbol and myth ; A note on allegory / George Whalley -- Yeats : the poet as myth-maker / Cleanth Brooks -- Form. The problem of esthetic form / Dewitt H. Parker -- Technique as discovery / Mark Schorer -- Form and point of view / Percy Lubbock -- Preface to the ambassadors / Henry James -- Pattern and rhythm / E.M. Forster -- Tradition and poetic structure / J.V. Cunningham -- Spatial form in modern literature / Joseph Frank -- Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke -- Historical focus. Toward an institutional method / Harry Levin -- Hamlet… / Theodore Spencer -- Psychological focus. Freud and literature / Lionel Trilling -- The problem of Hamlet and the Oedipus-complex / Ernest Jones -- Philological focus. A critic's job of work / R.P. Blackmur -- The world of Hamlet / Maynard Mack -- Philosophical focus. Criticism as pure speculation / John Crowe Ransom -- Hamlet / H.D.F. Kitto -- Literature and the human weal. The poet and the state / Plato -- Preface to the picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Poetry and beliefs / I.A. Richards -- Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot -- In search of fundamental values / L.C. Knights -- Valuative criticism. Orders of evaluative assumptions / Wayne Shumaker -- Lycidas / E.M.W. Tillyard -- How to read Lycidas / Paul Elmer More -- A poem nearly anonymous / John Crowe Ransom -- The judging of contemporary literature / David Daiches.