This Encyclopedia is the main finished consultant but either to the character and content material of literature, and to literary feedback. In 90 essays by way of major overseas critics and students, the quantity covers either conventional issues equivalent to literature and background, poetry, drama and the unconventional, and likewise more recent themes resembling the construction and reception of literature. present severe principles are in actual fact and provocatively mentioned, whereas the volume's association displays in a dynamic method the wealthy variety of latest pondering literature.
Each essay seeks to supply the reader with a transparent feel of the entire importance of its topic in addition to suggestions on extra reading.
An crucial paintings of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating consultant to the imperative preoccupations of latest severe pondering literature.
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* essentially written by means of students and critics of foreign status for readers in any respect degrees in lots of disciplines
* In-depth essays masking all points, conventional and new, of literary experiences previous and present
* helpful cross-references in the textual content, with complete bibliographical references and recommendations for additional reading
* unmarried index of authors, phrases, subject matters
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Often, characteristic patterns in the objective linguistic structure of the text will mark it as belonging to a particular text type or genre: for instance there is a typical metrical and rhyme scheme for Shakespearian sonnets, and a typical vocabulary and modality for weather 22 LITERATURE forecasts. But although individual genres may be stylistically distinguished, there is no single linguistic criterion, or set of criteria, which distinguish(es) all the ‘literary’ genres from all the ‘non-literary’ genres; those linguists who, following Jakobson, have claimed that there are empirical linguistic criteria for ‘Literature’, have done a disservice to text theory and textual description.
I shall also—towards the end—have something to say about the case of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses (1988), since the attack on Rushdie by religious fundamentalists bears a striking resemblance to Spinoza’s treatment at the hands of orthodox thinkers, Christian and Jewish alike. ) It is one main argument of this essay that literary criticism has developed historically alongside the efforts of Enlightenment thought to combat the forces of religious prejudice, unreason and dogma. Critical theory—the handiest coverterm for a range of competing schools and ideas—could scarcely have emerged in anything like its current form without this background history of brave endeavour on the part of Spinoza and other such liberalizing thinkers.
1974, p. 50) and: texts are made into literature by the community, not by their authors. (p. 47) Alastair Fowler makes a similar point, with a greater precision about terminology: Literature should not be regarded as a class at all, but as an aggregate. It is not what literary works have in common, but constitutes, rather, the cultural object of which they are parts. (1982, p. 3) The point is that an ‘aggregate’ is a loose category, not implying any particular internal structure, and an open category, admitting new entrants as the culture determines.