Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to ColeridgeHarvard University Press, 1989 - 322 páginas James Engell has prepared the first broad treatment of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century British criticism to appear in a generation, presenting the views of scores of writers on a variety of questions, many of which remain live issues today. While offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engell demonstrates that eighteenth-century criticism cannot be represented by just a few major critics or by generalizations about Augustan taste, neoclassical rules, or "common sense." He presents a complex and highly varied body of theoretical writing and practical application by dozens of critics including Rymer, Addison, Welsted, Ramsay, Hurd, Gerard, Newbery, Campbell, Blair, Beattie, Jeffrey, and Hazlitt. He also analyzes the continued relevance of their critical work, drawing connections with modern writers such as Eliot, Frye, Saussure, Barthes, Culler, Bakhtin, and L vi-Strauss. Engell concludes with a stimulating essay on the nature and function of the critical process itself. For students and scholars conversant with modern critical theory, Forming the Critical Mind will offer some surprising and interesting comparisons. |
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... learning in the English eighteenth century means what is accom- plished , accurate , urbane , correct ... learning . " Johnson himself , in the Life of Gray , freely refers to " the dogmatism of learning . " Umberto Eco suggests that ...
... Learning , whose pre- tense and " vanities of learning " all begin to establish specialized criteria for worthiness as art . Francis Jeffrey , apparently less dis- turbed by these developments than Hazlitt , observes that " The great ...
... learning , or historical elucidation ; ―neither is it a metaphys- ical dissertation , full of wise perplexities and elaborate reconcile- ments . It is , in truth , rather an encomium on Shakespeare , than a commentary or critique on him ...
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Drydens Variety of Models | 15 |
Progress | 44 |
The Rise | 76 |
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