Critical enquiries : essays on literature

著者

• Robson, W. W. (William Wallace)

書誌事項

Critical enquiries : essays on literature

W. W. Robson

Athlone Press, 1993

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This collection brings together a group of Wallace Robson's most important essays, both published and unpublished, and carries an introduction reviewing the practice of criticism and critical theory today. The authors and works treated in this volume include "Hamlet", "The Faerie Queen", "Paradise lost", Johnson as poet, Romantic verse, Tennyson, Dickens, Henry James, Kipling, Chesterton and Raymond Chandler. Robson's previous publications include "Critical Essays" (1966), "The Signs Among Us" (1968), "Modern English Literature" (1972), "The Definition of Literature" (1982), and "A Prologue to English Literature" (1986).

目次

• Did the king see the dumb-show?
• Spenser and "The Faerie Queene"
• "Paradise Lost" - changing interpretations and controversy
• text and context - Pope's "Coronation Epistle"
• Johnson as a poet
• romantic narrative verse - the autobiographical element
• Tennyson and Victorian balladry
• reality and cosiness in "Nicholas Nickleby"
• the choir master and the single buffer
• on "The Portrait of a Lady"
• on "The Golden Bowl"
• on "The Jungle Book"
• E. Nesbit and "The Book of Dragons"
• Father Brown and others
• "A Home for the Truth" - literary criticism in the letters of Raymond Chandler
• the poetry of C.S. Lewis.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA21211278
• ISBN:
  • 0485114410
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 281 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm