Best of
Criticism
1958
English Literature: A Survey for Students
Anthony Burgess - 1958
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Culture and Society, 1780-1950
Raymond Williams - 1958
Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
Homer and the Heroic Tradition
Cedric H. Whitman - 1958
What follows in the succeeding chapters is an attempt to formulate such a synoptic view, to bring together—for the first time, I believe—the results of modern specialized disciplines relating to Homeric studies and the kind of criticism which, twenty years ago, was called “New,” but which no, in modified forms, has become simply this era’s characteristic way of approaching such problems as imagery, action, and the poetic consciousness. —Cedric H. Whitman, from the Preface
Shakespeare & the Allegory of Evil: The History of a Metaphor in Relation to His Major Villains
Bernard Spivack - 1958
Thomas Mann: The Ironic German
Erich Heller - 1958
He offers a detailed study of the major works of fiction, Buddenbrooks, Tonio Kroher, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus and Felix Krull, as well as a discussion of Mann's most significant political essay, 'Meditations of a Non-Political Man'. Beyond this, Heller's book is a profound commentary on Mann by a mind attuned to (and mouded by) precisely the intellectual and cultural traditions which are so much part of Mann's creative make-up.