The Return of thematic criticism /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard English studies 18 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1463464 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Werner Sollors
- "Theme" as a Theme
- General Essays. Theme and Interpretation / Menachem Brinker. A Brief Genealogy of "Theme" / Nancy Armstrong. Concept and Theme / Claude Bremond. A Generative Approach to Thematics: Poetics of Expressiveness and Modern Criticism / Yuri K. Shcheglov. Motif and Theme as Structural Content Units and "Concrete Universals" / Theodor Wolpers. The Concept of Motif in Literature: A Terminological Study / Michel Vanhelleputte
- On Thematic Practice. Literary Histories and the Themes of Literature / David Perkins. Thematics and Historical Evidence / Thomas Pavel. Autumn Poems: Reflections on Theme as Tertium Comparationis / Holger Klein. The Thematics of Jean-Pierre Richard / Leon Somville. In Search of the Narrative Theme / Marie-Laure Ryan
- Case Studies. Shakespeare's Themes, with Variations / Marry Levin. "Topoi" of Realism: The Metamorphosis of Colors / Francesco Orlando. Bachelors in Paradise: The State of a Theme / Lynn Wardley. Topology and Typology: A Study of Shifting Sign/Code Relations / Bruce-Novoa. Wagner's Parsifal between Mystery and Mummery; or, Race, Class, and Gender in Bayreuth / Theodore Ziolkowski
- Short Takes. Love and Death / Leslie Fielder. Thematizing / J.M. Coetzee. Reflections on Stoffgeschichte / Raymond Trousson. Themes and the "Kernel of Truth" / Sander L. Gilman. Beyond "Form vs. Theme" / Alexander Zholkovsky. Roncevaux / George Steiner
- Selected Bibliography / Neal Dolan.