The Literary Form

Proust: the body and literary form

Florence Nightingale, William Farr and John Simon. All of these have received a good measure of historical attention, but the engineer Joseph Bazalgette, architect of London's main drainage system, and arguably originator of the blueprint for modem city sanitation, has been neglected by historians. This is a pity, because the conception of Bazalgette's grand plan for London's drainage, the tech...

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Literary Analysis in the Shadow of the Critique of New-Historicism A Critical Review of Literary Analysis: The Basics‬

Abstract Hossein Payandeh translated Literary Analysis: The Basics in to Farsi on 1396, by that time the original book had been on the market for 8 months. This book includes theoretical discussions and practical evidence on theory, literary criticism, and their relation to literary analysis. Although the author has presented his analysis in three distinct chapters and in the form of three met...

On the Pedagogy of literary translation

Assimilation into the Literary Mainstream

This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in the course of ethnic minority writers’ careers and across time? By analyzing newspaper reviews, we find that American reviewers less often mentio...