Dushan Bresky

Essays on Jean-Christophe

Cathedral Or Symphony

Miroslav Malik

Literary Practice III concludes Dushan Bresky's major critical trilogy. Following Volume I, outlining a comprehensive method for evaluating literary art, and Volume II, analyzing the elusive stimulative qualities of style, Volume III focuses on the esthetics of literary content. Its time-tested subjects include violent and psychological conflicts, erotic bonds, as well as humorous, supernatural, fantastic, utopian, and bizarre topics. In estimating their potential impact, Bresky draws not only on the French heritage (his academic specialty) but branches into all Western literatures, ranging from the Illiad and the medieval Legenda Aurea to the novels of Samuel Beckett and John Updike. In the «Biocybernetic Epilog» written just before his death in 1998, collaborator Miroslav Malik discusses the evolution of biometric techniques designed to monitor our responses to perception and their auxiliary role in esthetic literary criticism.

Esthetics of Literary Subjects

Brian Gill

Applying the criteria of esthetic evaluation outlined in "Literary" "Practice I, " Bresky continues his trilogy with multilevel valuatory analysis of the writing techniques distinguishing literary art. Each chapter defines and illustrates stylistic elements categorized as semantic, rhetorical, macrorhetorical, prosodic, syntactic and compositional (macrosyntactic) stimuli. The main goal is to appraise the scope and power of their stimulative intensity. Bresky again collaborates with biometrist Miroslav Malik and invited Brian Gill to contribute the chapter on the esthetics of syntax. In recording reader responses, Malik uses new sensitive equipment reflecting the evolution of biometric methods. The results demonstrate the auxiliary role of biometric measurements in the assessment of elusive esthetic impact. With its -mini-anthology- of illustrative texts, the study can serve not only as a scholarly reference but also as a textbook in literature courses devoted to criticism, theory, or creative writing. The author is now completing "Literary Practice III" - "Esthetics of Literary Subjects.""

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