クリストファー・リックス英文学評論集 Along Heroic Lines

Ricks, Christopher

Oxford University Press（2021/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 342 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192894656
• DDC分類 809.1

Full Description

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. Comparison and analysis (the tools of the critic, as T.S. Eliot insisted) are enlivened by imaginative pairings: of Samuel Johnson with Samuel Beckett, of Norman Mailer with Dickens, of Shakespeare with George Herbert, or of secret-police surveillance in Ben Jonson's Rome with that of Carmen Bugan's Romania.

Along Heroic Lines devotes itself to the heroic and to 'heroics' (Othello cross-examined by T.S. Eliot; Byron and role-playing; Ion Bugan, political protest and arrest). This knot is in tension with the English heroic line (Dryden's heroic triplets, Henry James's cadences, Geoffrey Hill's concluding book of prose-poems and how they choose to conclude). All alert to the balance and sustenance of alternate tones that prose and poetry can achieve in harmony.

Contents

Prefatory Note
1: The Best Words in the Best Order
2: The Anagram
3: Dryden's Heroic Triplets
4: T.S. Eliot and 'Wrong'd Othello'
5: Congratulations
6: The Novelist as Critic
7: Henry James and the Hero of the Story
8: John Jay Chapman and a Vocation for Heroism
9: T.S. Eliot, Byron, and Learning Actors
10: Geoffrey Hill's Grievous Heroes
11: Norman Mailer, Just Off the Rhythm
12: Ion Bugan on the Iron Curtain
13: Heroic Work by Samuel Johnson and Samuel Beckett