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A gallery of mirrors : observations on novelists and poets / Harry Levin

Publisher	(Milton : Taylor and Francis)
Year	2017
Edition	1st ed.
Authors	*Levin, Harry 1912-1994 author

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00181833		Taylor & Francis eBooks Archive Collection (電子ブック)	9781351535533

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Size	1 online resource (206 pages)
Other titles	original title:Contexts of criticism
Notes	Cover Page -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- WORKING DEFINITIONS -- New Frontiers in the Humanities -- Art as Knowledge -- Contexts of the Classical -- The Tradition of Tradition -- What is Realism? -- NOTATIONS ON NOVELISTS -- The Example of Cervantes -- Don Quixote and Moby-Dick -- Balzac and Proust -- Joyce's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy -- Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway -- LONG VIEWS -- Society as its own Historian -- Symbolism and Fiction -- The War of Words in English Poetry -- A Gallery of Mirrors -- Criticism in Crisis -- APPENDIX -- James Joyce et l'idée de littérature mondiale -- Index "The essays in this classic volume range from broad concerns with critical theory and aesthetic formulation to specific analysis of forms and texts. Levin discusses such matters as the symbolic interpretation of literature, the development of literary criticism during the past half-century, European attitudes toward contemporary American writers, and re-evaluations of Joyce, Proust, Balzac, Cervantes, Melville, and Hemingway. Because Levin is both a learned scholar and imaginative critic, there is no comparable book that offers the wit, taste, and learning one finds in these pages. His historical and comparative approaches to literary theory enable Levin to place a given work precisely by relating it to other works and manifestations of culture. World literature is not the province of this work. But Levin views it as the horizon against which our own traditions may be measured. Just as anthropologists discover similar processes working through diverse cultures, so through can we glean understanding of common patterns through the analysis of world literature, our own peculiarly specialized branch of the science of man. The effect of convention, in shaping the extent to which literature may be conceived as an institution, has been widely discussed. A Gallery of Mirrors raises theoretical questions that touch the methodology of humanistic scholarship, with regard to other disciplines, and the status of art, with regard to other modes of knowledge. With changing schools of critical thought, Levin relies considerably on semantics as a precision instrument for defining concepts in the terms of those for whom they were most meaningful."--Provided by publisher OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record HTTP:URL=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315083582 Information=Taylor & Francis
Subjects	LCSH:Literature -- History and criticism All Subject Search
Classification	LCC:PN511 DC23:801/.95
ID	8000083432
ISBN	9781351535533