Criticism category: 58377 books

Cover of Milton in the Long Restoration
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that reaches its climax with the French...
Cover of Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991)

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991)

An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary

by Philip C Kolin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 — a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work. While the primary focus is on feminist studies of Shakespeare, it also includes wide-ranging works on language,...
Cover of Marxist Literary Criticism Today
by Barbara Foley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019

Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxism continues to offer the best framework for exploring the relationship between literature and society.*BR**BR*She lays out in clear terms the principal aspects...
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Eliot's Objective Correlative

Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos

by Flemming Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...
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Southern Women Playwrights

New Essays in History and Criticism

by Theresa R. Mooney, John W. Lowe, Betty E. McKinnie
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010

This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women...
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Overcoming Matthew Arnold

Ethics in Culture and Criticism

by James Walter Caufield
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master tropes of "culture" and "conduct." Caufield uses Arnold's ethics as a lens through...
Cover of The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)
by Ioan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding’s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding’s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth-century life and literature at large....
Cover of Jane Austen's Criticism of the Clergy in Pride and Prejudice
by Tobias Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (FB 02 Sprachwissenschaften Institut für Anglistik), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Pride and Prejudice is nowadays regarded as Jane...
Cover of The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry
by Ronald Crane
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953

These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less distinct...
Cover of Lessons in Secular Criticism
by Stathis Gourgouris
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass,...
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Practical Criticism

A Study of Literary Judgment

by I. A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Linguist, critic, poet, psychologist, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known, however, as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings...
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New England Beyond Criticism

In Defense of America's First Literature

by Elisa New
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of...
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The Winnowing Fan

Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism

by Professor Christopher Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary...
Cover of Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism
by D. Thornley
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism provides a platform for a new politics of criticism, a collaborative ethos for a different kind of relationship to cross-cultural cinema that invites further conversations between filmmakers and audiences, indigenous and others.
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