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The book began with quotations originally in English, arranged them chronologically by author; Geoffrey Chaucer was the first entry and Mary Frances Butts the last. The quotes were chiefly from literary sources. A "miscellaneous" section followed, including quotations in English from politicians and scientists, such as "fifty-four forty or fight!".
Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham. [1] Maugham collects together what he considers to have been the ten greatest novels and writes about the books and the authors. The ten novels are: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
The eleventh, famous chapter, entitled "The Heresy of Paraphrase," is a polemic against the use of paraphrase in describing and criticizing a poem. This chapter is followed by two appendices: "Criticism, History, and Critical Relativism" and "The Problem of Belief."
Its origin is associated with the publication of Richards two books: Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) and Practical Criticism (1929). The school would later spread to Russia, where it was known as formalism. [5] Richards, in his development of the theory, was influenced by T.S. Eliot, particularly, the latter's criticism of the Victorian ...
New Criticism developed as a reaction to the older philological and literary history schools of the US North, which focused on the history and meaning of individual words and their relation to foreign and ancient languages, comparative sources, and the biographical circumstances of the authors, taking this approach under the influence of nineteenth-century German scholarship.
The Yale Book of Quotations is a quotations collection focusing on modern and American quotations. Edited by Fred R. Shapiro , it was published by Yale University Press in 2006 with a foreword by Joseph Epstein , ISBN 978-0-300-10798-2 .
Historical criticism (also known as the historical-critical method (HCM) or higher criticism, [1] in contrast to lower criticism or textual criticism [2]) is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts to understand "the world behind the text" [3] and emphasizes a process that "delays any assessment of scripture's truth and relevance until after the act of ...
Henry Louis Gates: African-American literary theory; Gerald Vizenor: Native American literary theory; William Dean Howells: Literary realism; Stephen Greenblatt: New Historicism; Geoffrey Hartman: Yale school of deconstruction; John Crowe Ransom: New Criticism; Cleanth Brooks: New Criticism; Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric studies; Elaine Showalter ...