Criticism category: 58377 books
How to Be an Intellectual
Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s...
Berlioz on Music
Selected Criticism 1824-1837
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, yet there has...
Children of the Dark House
Text and Context in Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Polished and refitted into a new critical matrix, these essays by a distinguished Faulkner editor and scholar in no way resemble the casual self-anthologizing often encountered. Polk's stature as a critic meshes neatly with his work as an editor; his patent joy at the very sight of Faulkner manuscripts...
Three Traveling Women Writers
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed...
Ted Hughes
Alternative Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
This is the first collection of essays to be published since the poet's death. Continuing a tradition of more than thirty years of Ted Hughes studies, it gathers contributions by most of the major international Hughes scholars, voicing their critical preoccupations at the turn of the century.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical...
by Thomas Edward Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Modern critics and contemporary readers familiar with the field of Whitman criticism may find surprising an analysis of the structure of Leaves of Grass that concerns itself with Whitman as the poet-prophet and the identification of Whitman (or of his persona in the poem) with Christ. Early twentieth-century...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
Listen Again
A Momentary History of Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen...
by Edna Longley
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1974. Wordsworth, with Coleridge, is the major literary critic of the Romantic period. This volume assembles all of Wordsworth’s formal critical writings and a selection of critical comments from his correspondence. These documents are invaluable for Romantic poetry at large,...
Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature
Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This bold study traces the processes by which a ‘history’ and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition.
Focusing on Anglophone...
Edward Said
The Charisma of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
This insightful critical biography shows us an Edward Said we did not know. H. Aram Veeser brings forth not the Said of tabloid culture, or Said the remote philosopher, but the actual man, embedded in the politics of the Middle East but soaked in the values of the West and struggling to advance the...
Engendering Men
The Question of Male Feminist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Over the past several years, the question of men’s relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.
In the wake of feminism,...