Reconstructing Criticism: Pope's Essay on Criticism and the Logic of DefinitionBucknell University Press, 2003 - 226 pages This study aims to bring the modern theory of literary criticism, and Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' of 1711, into a more productive and intersting association than critical-historical structures have generally allowed. Smallwood marks out in current terms and in depth the specialized theoretial and aesthetic problem of defining criticism. He recognizes that criticism, no more than literature or art, cannot be finally codified or defined, but insists on the need for clarity in the exposition of criticism's purposes and a fuller consciousness of a common community of practice available to audiences outside the academic fold. Affirming the unfailing currency and utility of the term criticism as new languages have taken over the critical domain, or have sought to replace or abolish literature, Smallwood distinguishes between the normative definitions that are everywhere apparent in modern theory of criticism, and the advantages to conceptual comprehension achieved by Pope's poetic idea of criticism in the 'Essay'. |
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... Wellek and Warren ap- pears in the distinctions they find between the literary , the everyday , and the scientific uses of language . The language of literature , they suggest , differs from the language of science in that while the ...
... Wellek and Warren ap- pears in the distinctions they find between the literary , the everyday , and the scientific uses of language . The language of literature , they suggest , differs from the language of science in that while the ...
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... Wellek , whose multivolume narrative extends the spatial field beyond Saintsbury's " Europe " to Russia and America , criticism is broadened out from Saintsbury's " examination of lit- erature " to " any discourse on literature " ( my ...
... Wellek , whose multivolume narrative extends the spatial field beyond Saintsbury's " Europe " to Russia and America , criticism is broadened out from Saintsbury's " examination of lit- erature " to " any discourse on literature " ( my ...
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... Wellek was taken to task by Erich Auerbach , Romanishe Forschungen 62 ( 1956 ) : 387-97 , on the grounds that literary criticism does not constitute a unified subject . Wellek reasserted his belief in his subject's integrity in the ...
... Wellek was taken to task by Erich Auerbach , Romanishe Forschungen 62 ( 1956 ) : 387-97 , on the grounds that literary criticism does not constitute a unified subject . Wellek reasserted his belief in his subject's integrity in the ...
Contents
Abbreviations | 11 |
Defining LiteratureDefining Criticism | 29 |
On Definition and Debate | 49 |
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A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present M. A. R. Habib No preview available - 2005 |