From Rhetoric to Aesthetics.

The thesis deals primarily with the term wit and its modern and historical usage in literary and aesthetic theories. Further, it concerned with the literary and aesthetic implications of the terms wit and esprit as they were theorized in critical writings of several authors of the early modern Engla...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bicanová, Klára
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2013.
Temas:
English literature > History and criticism.
French literature > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, British.
Aesthetics, French.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > Histoire et critique.
Esthétique britannique.
Esthétique française.
Aesthetics, British
Aesthetics, French
English literature
French literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 T heoretical and Historical Prolegomena
  • 1.1 Wit Theorized: Summary of Twentieth-Century Approaches
  • 1.1.1 Beginnings of Critical Interest in Wit: Courthope, Spingarn, Eliot
  • 1.1.2 Formalist and Linguistic Approach: Empson and Lewis
  • 1.1.3 Structuralist, Post-structuralist and Psychoanalytic Angle: Culler, Sitter, Kroll
  • 1.2 Wit as Aesthetic Concept
  • 1.2.1 The Problem of Definition: 'Wit' in Dictionaries
  • 1.2.2 Wit and Humour and the Sublime and the Beautiful: Comparative Approach
  • 1.2.3 Wit as Aesthetic Principle: Visual Arts, Theatre Studies, Game Theories
  • 1.3 The Literature and Culture of the Late Seventeenth Century: Political, Philosophical and Literary-historical Background
  • 1.3.1 Rhetoric and the Renaissance Poetic
  • 1.3.2 Seventeenth-century France: Society and Arts in the State of Flux
  • 1.3.3 Society in Transition: Restoration England and its Culture
  • 2 Official and Alternative Classical Aesthetics: Bouhours, Méré, and Boileau
  • 2.1 Dominique Bouhours and Poetic Ideologies of the Bel Esprit
  • 2.1.1 The bel esprit and the je-ne-sais-quoi
  • 2.1.2 Les Entretiens d'Artiste et d'Eugène: The Key Concepts of the New Aesthetic Introduced
  • 2.1.3 La Maniére de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit: The theory expanded
  • 2.1.4 Bouhours's Reception in England
  • 2.2 Chevalier de Méré: Esprit as Light of Nature
  • 2.2.1 The Polite Lexicon: the je-ne-sais-quoi, honnêteté, and esprit
  • 2.2.2 Discours de l'Esprit: The Polite Society versus Nature
  • 2.3 Nicolas Boileau-Déspreaux and the Ideal of Neoclassical Esprit
  • 2.3.1 Boileau as a Critic
  • 2.3.2 Esprit in Boileau's Translation of Le Traité du sublime
  • 2.3.3 L'Art poétique: The Text and the Context
  • 2.3.4 Use of Esprit in L'Art poétique
  • 2.3.5 Boileau's Reception in England.
  • 3 True and False Wit: Dryden, Pope, and Addison
  • 3.1 John Dryden and Vagaries of Restoration Wit
  • 3.1.1 The Specifics of Dryden's Critical Style and Terminology
  • 3.1.2 The Beginnings: The Essay of Dramatick Poesy
  • 3.1.3 Annus Mirabilis and Beyond: Theory Expounded
  • 3.1.4 French vs English, Moderns vs Ancients: Wit as Compromise
  • 3.2 Alexander Pope and Wit as Meta-criticism
  • 3.2.1 An Essay on Criticism: Critics' Enigma
  • 3.2.2 The Contexts of An Essay on Criticism
  • 3.2.3 From 'Wild Heap' to 'Nature to Advantage Dress'd': Pope's Dual Conception of Wit
  • 3.2.4 Pope and Addison I: Pride, Vanity and Wit
  • 3.3 Joseph Addison and the Aesthetics of Neoclassical Wit
  • 3.3.1 The Spectator and the Neoclassical Criticism
  • 3.3.2 The Spectator Series on Wit
  • 3.3.3 Ambiguity and Surprise: Addison's Aesthetics of Neoclassical Wit
  • 3.4 Wit and Esprit: Points of Accord and Dissonance
  • 3.4.1 The French Criticism in England: The Question of Influence
  • 3.4.2 Wit and Esprit as Signs of Advancement in English and French Culture
  • 3.4.4 Wit and Esprit: Terminology of New Taste
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Endnotes
  • Index.

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