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From the Land of Shadows
by Clive James‘These literary-critical essays are compact with wit and penetration but also have a kind of freshness about them, as if the author has never got over his first rapture of enjoyment at the sheer thisness of poetry and prose. James is in the tradition of Hazlitt, Bagehot, and Desmond MacCarthy, with a gusto worthy to succeed theirs and a philosophy well set out in his own introduction. “Literature”, he writes, “says most things itself, when it is allowed to.” Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure’ John Bayley, Observer ‘His outstanding talent is as a cicerone, guiding the ignorant traveller with patience, knowledge and wit round some favourite literary edifice and communicating his own admiration of it to the goggling and fascinated visitor . . . the lasting impression is of our critic’s truly amazing breadth of reference’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Mr James is hungry for – and not unworthy of – engagement with important issues. A collection of dignity and coherence . . . tellingly timely’ Sunday Times
George Eliot: A Centenary Tribute (Yale Edition Of The George Eliot Letters Ser. #Vol. 6)
by Gordon S. Haight T. VanArsdel
A George Orwell Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Documentaries and Essays (Literary Companions)
by J. Hammond
Handbuch zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Von 1750 bis 1800
by Hans-Heino EwersÜber 1.000 Werke der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Porträt. Lesebücher, Enzyklopädien, Schulanthologien, Sachbücher, Belletristik, moralisch erziehende und religiöse Werke, ABC-Bücher, Bastelbücher und Haushaltslehren zählen zu den vorgestellten Titeln. So liefert der Band einen detaillierten Überblick über eine der wichtigsten historischen Entwicklungsphasen der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.
Hölderlins Weg zu Deutschland: Fragmente und Thesen. Mit einer Replik auf Pierre Bertaux "Friedrich Hölderlin"
by Adolf Beck
Husserl and Intentionality: A Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language (Synthese Library #154)
by D.W Smith R. McIntyre
Interaktions- und Leistungstypen im Literaturunterricht: Eine handlungstheoretische Feldstudie unterrichtlicher Komplexität (Forschungsberichte des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen #3097)
by Jürgen Grzesik
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
by Stanley FishStanley Fish is one of America’s most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism’s most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a stunning proposal for a new way of thinking about the way we read. Fish begins by examining the relation between a reader and a text, arguing against the formalist belief that the text alone is the basic, knowable, neutral, and unchanging component of literary experience. But in arguing for the right of the reader to interpret and in effect create the literary work, he skillfully avoids the old trap of subjectivity. To claim that each reader essentially participates in the making of a poem or novel is not, he shows, an invitation to unchecked subjectivity and to the endless proliferation of competing interpretations. For each reader approaches a literary work not as an isolated individual but as part of a community of readers. “Indeed,” he writes, “it is interpretive communities, rather than either the text or reader, that produce meanings.” The book is developmental, not static. Fish at all times reveals the evolutionary aspect of his work—the manner in which he has assumed new positions, altered them, and then moved on. Previously published essays are introduced by headnotes which relate them to the central notion of interpretive communities as it emerges in the final chapters. In the course of refining his theory, Fish includes rather than excludes the thinking of other critics and shows how often they agree with him, even when he and they may appear to be most dramatically at odds. Engaging, lucid, provocative, this book will immediately find its place among the seminal works of modern literary criticism.
Issues in International Bilingual Education: The Role of the Vernacular (Topics in Language and Linguistics)
by Beverly Hartford, Albert Valdman and Charles R. FosterCHRISTINA BRAIT PAULSTON There is an important difference between merely experimental and genuine experiment. The one may be a feeling for novelty, the other is rationally based on experience seeking a better way. - Frank Lloyd Wright Wright was talking about architecture, but the same difference can be applied to analyzing the relationship between standard and vernacular languages in bilingual education; surely we are also seeking a better way to handle bilingual education based on experience. How rationally based our efforts are, is another question. Works on this and similar topics can at times become the scene for very emotional-and very moving-presentations which sometimes are more utopian than rational. One can perhaps call this a very 'rational' text, because so few of the contributors are members of ethnic subordinate groups. Am I suggesting that minority group members are less rational? Of course not. I am suggesting that it is much easier to be calm, objective and scholarly about the lot of others than about your own. The most salient feature about the bilingual education of vernacular speaking groups is the social and economic exploitation of its members by the dominant group. The papers herein, treating bilingual education from a psychological perspective, agree at least on the issue that an understanding of the social and economic factors underlying bilingual education is crucial for understanding the psychological studies on bilingualism.
James Joyce: A Guide to Research (Routledge Library Editions: James Joyce)
by Thomas Jackson RiceJames Joyce: A Guide to Research, first published in 1982, is a selective annotated bibliography of works by and about James Joyce. It consists of three parts: the primary bibliography – which includes separate bibliographies of Joyce’s major works, of scholarly editions or collections of his works of his letters, and of concordances to his works; the secondary bibliography – which includes bibliographies of bibliographical, biographical, and critical works concerning Joyce generally or his individual works; and major foreign-language studies. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
James Joyce: A Guide to Research (Routledge Library Editions: James Joyce)
by Thomas Jackson RiceJames Joyce: A Guide to Research, first published in 1982, is a selective annotated bibliography of works by and about James Joyce. It consists of three parts: the primary bibliography – which includes separate bibliographies of Joyce’s major works, of scholarly editions or collections of his works of his letters, and of concordances to his works; the secondary bibliography – which includes bibliographies of bibliographical, biographical, and critical works concerning Joyce generally or his individual works; and major foreign-language studies. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
