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1. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice

   Look up the book's content: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781577663188.pdf

   Cheryl Ball - 20.08.2013 - 11:53

2. Principles of Literary Criticism

   Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that became known as the 'New Criticism' Through a powerful presentation of the need to read critically and creatively, with an alertness to the psychological and emotional effects of language, Richards presented a powerful new understanding both of literature and of the role of the reader. Highly controversial when first published, Principles of Literary Criticism remains a work which no one with a serious interest in literature can afford to ignore.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 21:25

3. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

   The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. Erudite, yet gracefully written and often amusing, Watt's study examines the nature of the novel audience, the role of the book trade, and the changing structure of society at large.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 22:07

4. Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

   Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing the technological sublime.
    

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 23:33

5. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

   This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

   In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:39