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Approaches to the novel: materials for a poetics
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ISBN: 0810202018 Year: 1966 Publisher: Scranton Chandler, Pa

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Paradoxy of modernism.
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ISBN: 0300108206 9780300108200 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university press

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Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945 he contends that the binary oppositions which defined modernism are misleading. He argues that such oppositions are instances of 'paradoxy', an apparent clarity that covers real confusion.


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Semiotics and interpretation
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ISBN: 0300027982 0300030932 9780300027983 9780300030938 Year: 1982 Publisher: New Haven Yale university

Structuralism in literature : an introduction
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ISBN: 0300018509 0300017502 9780300017502 9780300018509 Year: 1977 Volume: Y276 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully lucid, and at the same time intelligently critical...Perhaps the most valuable general work [on the subject] available." - Times Higher Education Supplement

Paradoxy of modernism
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ISBN: 1281729183 9786611729189 0300128843 9780300128840 9780300108200 0300108206 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press

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In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions-high/low, old/new, hard/soft, poetry/rhetoric-Scholes contends that these distinctions are in fact confused and misleading. Such oppositions are instances of "paradoxy"-an apparent clarity that covers real confusion.Closely examining specific literary texts, drawings, critical writings, and memoirs, Scholes seeks to complicate the neat polar oppositions attributed to modernism. He argues for the rehabilitation of works in the middle ground that have been trivialized in previous evaluations, and he fights orthodoxy with such paradoxes as "durable fluff," "formulaic creativity," and "iridescent mediocrity." The book reconsiders major figures like James Joyce while underscoring the value of minor figures and addressing new attention to others rarely studied. It includes twenty-two illustrations of the artworks discussed. Filled with the observations of a personable and witty guide, this is a book that opens up for a reader's delight the rich cultural terrain of modernism.

The rise and fall of English : reconstructing English as a discipline
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ISBN: 1281729221 0300128894 9786611729226 0585343861 9780585343860 9780300128895 0300071515 0300080840 9780300071511 9780300080841 Year: 9999 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university

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In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in our educational system, diagnosing the educational illness he perceives in today's English departments, and recommending theoretical and practical changes in the field of English studies. Scholes's position defies neat labels-it is a deeply conservative expression of the wish to preserve the best in the English tradition of verbal and textual studies, yet it is a radical argument for reconstruction of the discipline of English. The book begins by examining the history of the rapid rise of English at two American universities-Yale and Brown-at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Scholes argues that the subsequent fall of English-discernible today in college English departments across the United States-is the result of both cultural shifts and changes within the field of English itself. He calls for a fundamental reorientation of the discipline-away from political or highly theoretical issues, away from a specific canon of texts, and toward a canon of methods, to be used in the process of learning how to situate, compose, and read a text. He offers an eloquent proposal for a discipline based on rhetoric and the teaching of reading and writing over a broad range of literatures, a discipline that includes literariness but is not limited to it.

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