Background
Ruthven, Kenneth Knowles was born on May 26, 1936 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Son of Thomas Knowles and Freda (Bennett) Ruthven. arrived in Australia, 1980.
(The rise of feminism is undeniably one of the major event...)
The rise of feminism is undeniably one of the major events in the development of literary criticism this century. Feminist approaches have pushed forward both the theory of literary criticism and the understanding of individual works of literature. K. K. Ruthven's lucid introduction to the subject offers a broad survey, looking at the impact of Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism on feminist critical practice; the argument that literary language has been shaped by masculine bias; and feminist claims for distinctive styles and traditions of women's writing. As a lively contribution written by a man to a highly controversial topic dominated by women, K. K. Ruthven's study is original and even provocative, but above all serves as a valuably clear and sympathetic guide to the complexities of an important issue in modern literary studies.
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(This book is an historical survey of some important theor...)
This book is an historical survey of some important theories of literary criticism, which is designed to introduce more advanced students of English and other European literature to the nature and origin of these theories and ultimately to help them clarify their own attitudes to literature. Professor Ruthven's approach is to bring together and analyse examples of the way in which major writers and critics have dealt with the critical issues raised by different kinds of writing. He emphasizes throughout the variety of critical stances taken at different times in response to the challenge posed by highly original works and he draws on a large number of instances from all the major periods of English literature. The examination of the historical material presented here should encourage students of English, as well as other modern European literatures, to recognise and re-appraise their own critical assumptions.
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(Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versi...)
Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of literature itself. Literature has long been under attack because of its alliance with rhetoric (the art of persuasion) rather than with logic and ethics. One way of deflecting such attacks is to demonize literary forgery: literature acquires the illusion of authenticity by being dissociated from what are represented as ersatz approximations of the real thing.
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(Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory t...)
Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary critic (some of it made available only recently), K.K. Ruthven provides a provocative re-reading of a major modernist writer who dominated the discourse of modernism.
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(Among the fall-out from the obliteration of Hiroshima and...)
Among the fall-out from the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the seed of a new cultural phenomenon: a half century of writings which attempt to evaluate the cultural consequences of a nuclear technology whose most conspicuous legacy is the nuclear power station and weapons of mass destruction. "Nuclear Criticism" introduces a variety of analytical approaches to representations of nuclearism, ranging from official accounts of the first atomic test in 1945 to recent reports on a controversial shipment of plutonium to Japan. A relatively late intervention in this history is self-styled and theoretically sophisticated nuclear criticism whose assumptions and practices are here contextualized and examined. This introductory study argues that a broadly based nuclear criticism ought to be a component of cultural studies in a post-Cold War period characterized by fewer nuclear weapons and more nuclear powers.
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Ruthven, Kenneth Knowles was born on May 26, 1936 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Son of Thomas Knowles and Freda (Bennett) Ruthven. arrived in Australia, 1980.
Bachelor with 1st class honors, University Manchester, England, 1958. Master of Arts, University Manchester, England, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Manchester, England, 1965.
From assistant lecturer to lecturer to senior lecturer to professor English University Canterbury, New Zealand, 1961-1979. Professor English University Adelaide, Australia, 1980-1985, University Melbourne, Australia, 1985-1999. Professor emeritus, since 2000.
(Among the fall-out from the obliteration of Hiroshima and...)
(This book is an historical survey of some important theor...)
(Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory t...)
(The rise of feminism is undeniably one of the major event...)
(Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versi...)
(Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versi...)
Fellow Australian Academy of Humanities.
Married Rachel Mary Bainbridge, December 26, 1960. Children: Simon, Guy, Patrick.