Criticism category: 58377 books
The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken
Plays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known primarily as a newspaperman and commentator, Mencken...
Within the Circle
An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black...
An American Triptych
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism...
by Jonathan Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation...
The Pictorial Third
An Essay Into Intermedial Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed ‘intermedial transposition‘....
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods
Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair...
Pieces of My Mind
Essays and Criticism 1958-2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2004
Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of...
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations...
by Wai-chew Sim
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.
In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:
a biographical...
The Poet Resigns
Poetry in a Difficult Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What are we really wishing for when we want poetry to have the prominence it had in the past? Why do American poets overwhelmingly identify with the political left? How do poems communicate? Is there an essential link between formal experimentation and political radicalism? What happens when poetic...
by Arnold Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Arnold believes that the ultimate function of humankind lies in exercising its creative powers. He delineates the function of criticism in this work saying that it filters the contents that will reach society. That a critic can judge the greatness of a literary piece has been asserted.
Ambition and Survival
Becoming a Poet
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition and Survival, not just one of the best books of poetry criticism in a generation, but a spiritual...
Images of History
Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter...
by Luke Ferretter
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and continues to influence political modes of criticism such as feminism, postcolonialism and queer theory....