Sentences with phrase «of literary critics»

When I get the chance to quiz someone who seems disproportionately passionate about the snobbishness of literary critics or the rabble's appetite for trash, there's usually some highly charged personal history behind their indignation.

But the form critic utilizes the work of literary critics, for example, in the inspired work of the father of form criticism, Hermann Gunkel, in the early decades of this century, and G. von Rad now in the middle decades.6 Only relatively few, notably among Scandinavian scholars, have completely abandoned the presuppositions of literary criticism.

As regular readers know, Girard is something of a cult figure among a large number of literary critics, philosophers, and theologians (see Joseph Bottum's «Girard Among the Girardians,» March 1996).

As a result there is more likely to be a criticism of the assumptions of one generation of literary critics by the next.

Adam Kirsch has a charming essay marking the 100 birthday of literary critic M. H. Abrams over at the Tablet, one well worth reading.

Geertz in fact likens the work of an ethnographer to that of a literary critic, and Heilman deliberately sets his study in a dramaturgical framework, suggesting that the relation of empirical study to narrative art may be closer than usually believed.

When Coetzee dons the hat of a literary critic, as he does in the 23 pieces collected in his new book, Late Essays: 2006 — 2017, it is his novelist's eye that prevails.

Anxiety and Its Influence The episode on I - 95 describes, to some extent, my larger protracted history with a family of reductive artists a generation older than me, a case of «anxiety of influence,» in the words of literary critic Harold Bloom.

From this perspective, Prof. Grad gives us some close «readings» of Avery's work, rather in the manner of a literary critic explicating the content of a lyric poem, and she is particularly energetic in making those comparisons with other American painters whose work, as she says, «touches on the pastoral mode.»

Not exact matches

«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,» English literary critic Cyril Connolly declared seventy something years ago.

The famous literary critic Lionel Trilling gave Eliot at least one good review, writing in the September 1962 edition of Esquire (as quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (Harper Collins, 1996), p. 508, and in R. Andrews, Famous Lines: The Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations (Columbia Univ..

That story has been described by the literary critic Harold Bloom (himself not the least Christian) as one of the great stories in world literature.»

Beginning with Friedrich Schleiermacher in a letter published in 1807, biblical textual critics and scholars examining the texts fail to find their vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles of the emerged Christian church rather than those of the apostolic generation.

The ineffectiveness of literary criticism when faced with so - called documentary literature is an indication of how far the critics» thinking has lagged behind the stage of the productive forces.

What do we do with — or, more accurately, without — that strange breed of writer, the literary critic?

The great literary critic Frank Kermode wrote of «The Figure in the Carpet» that «Vereker's secret — «the thing for the critic to find» — is not, we infer, the sort of thing the celibate and impotent may look for when they speculate about sex.

He is one of a chorus of critics whose expertise ranges across the academic disciplines - philosophers, geologists, drama critics, literary men and women, students of law and of history, theologians, and so on.

My own temptation is to become a literary critic, wag my head learnedly and say, «Well, this obviously is a bit of hyperbole — the sort of exaggeration a teacher would use to shock his students awake.»

Few contemporary theologians would disagree with this statement, but we might well expect that many of Weisinger's brothers in arms, the literary critics, would raise a cry of protest against this seeming assault upon the reality of the individual mythical vision.

As Erich Auerbach, a literary critic Frei much admired, once wrote of the Bible: «Far from seeking... merely to make us forget our own reality for a few hours, it seeks to overcome our reality: we are to fit our own life into its world, feel ourselves to be elements in its structure of universal history.

Now any literary critic — or anyone with, common sense — knows that the meaning of a realistically told story can never be reduced to a moral.

It has many sources, from redaction critics who started looking at each Gospel as a whole to literary scholars like Northrop Frye and Frank Kermode who have called renewed attention to the narrative shape of biblical texts.

the Indian literary critic, writer of the post-colonized English says, «English, in this context is decolonized through a nativization of theme, space and time, a change of canon from the Western to the Indian... «19 These stylistic changes in language influence the modern - biblical translation, especially in the Indian context.

For the New Critics the literary text was considered an autonomous work of art, to be studied independently of its authors intentions and of the sociopolitical currents of the time in which it was produced.

Thus, where historical criticism, reading the Book of Isaiah, tries to distinguish which materials come from the eighth - century prophet, the sixth - century prophet and the fifth - century prophet, literary and canonical critics focus on how the final form of the book has created the context within which all of its materials are now to be read, as a movement from judgment to salvation.

They often find they have more to learn from, and discuss with, literary critics than with historians; indeed, the literary analysis of the Bible is becoming a minor industry.

This posture is assumed when those writers represent the major islands of Western literary tradition, the central cultural engine — so it goes — of racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and imperialism: a cesspool that literary critics would expose for mankind's benefit.

During the great battles on the legalization of divorce and homosexual acts, the notable campaigners then were really distinguished public figures, for example: Bruce Arnold, mentioned above, Prof. Richard Humphries of the University College Dublin School of Law, historian Prof. John A. Murphy mentioned above, of University College Cork, the journalist Kevin Myers, the literary critic Prof. David Norris of Trinity College Dublin, former Reid Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, later President of the Republic, Mary Robinson.

While most moralists and literary critics of this century have viewed comedy as frivolous, a hindrance to serious thinking, Auden used it in the service of morality.

If the question were expanded to include novelists — the most sociological of major art forms — a well - informed literary critic might offer a few names such as Ron Hansen or Alice McDermott, authors whose subject matter is often overtly Catholic.

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

Today, if any living Catholic novelist or poet has a major reputation, that reputation has not been made by Catholic critics but by the secular literary world, often in spite of their religious identity.

The few occurrences of the term have been regarded as unauthentic by most literary critics.

But we are faced just like the literary critic with figuring out what the text says, of constructing a reading of it.

A piece of literature would be ink scrawls on paper, and a great literary critic would be someone with an ocular affinity for black on white.

In these studies Buber leads us on a narrow ridge between the traditionalist's insistence on the literal truth of the biblical narrative and the modern critic's tendency to regard this narrative as of merely literary or symbolic significance.

He was a poet and literary critic, but I think it does no disservice to his memory to say that his poetry was not quite first rate and that his criticism was eclectic, occasional and of varying quality.

• I came across Chamfort's observation about slavery and freedom in The Hall of Uselessness, a wonderful collection of essays by Simon Leys, the pen name of scholar and literary critic Pierre Ryckmans.

In the Chronicle of Higher Education literary critic Terry Eagleton writes an interesting if confused article in praise (and defense) of Marx (once again for the umpteenth time).

While Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom continued their brilliance as literary critics — the former delving deeper into the personal past exemplary of a whole traditional way of life, while the latter explored the heights and depths of metaphysical abstraction and the linguistic analytics of poetry.

After it was published I experienced what literary critics often point out, that any work of art — a poem, a painting, even a book of theology — quickly escapes its creator's hand and takes on a life of its own.

Similarly, it was not Voltaire, the most prominent among the literary critics of Christianity in the eighteenth century, who suggested constructive means by which healing might be effected, but men of the type of Schleiermacher, Maurice, Kingsley, Robertson, Bushnell, Chalmers, Wichern, Rauschenbusch.

That view, incidentally, has been thoughtfully contested by literary critics and legal scholars alike over the years, who have questioned whether Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson in the 1960 novel was motivated by a commitment to justice that transcended race, or by a commitment to professional rectitude.

No one has grasped the magic of Dostoevsky's novels better than the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin.

One of his central contentions as a literary critic was that after the seventeenth century the novel had degenerated because of a lack of religious seriousness.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

Kurzweil's critics are legion, but even the severest of them would have to admit that he was the very model of the engaged literary scholar.

As with Eliot, one suspects, so with Ozick, whose own career has included the twinned and twined roles of storyteller and literary critic.

For Ozick, however, the literary critic is herself the architect of literary tradition, arranging works, authors, movements, and trends in conversation with one another, «teas [ing] out hidden imperatives and assumptions held in common, and... creat [ing] the fertilizing conditions that underlie and stimulate a living literary consciousness.»

Throughout I have depended on the scholarship of others, most of whom are historians, literary critics, or political scientists, but the primary data are the original texts written or spoken by Americans from the 17th century to the present, that are liberally scattered through every chapter.