Criticism category: 58377 books

Cover of Modern Criticism and Theory
by Nigel Wood, David Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection’s aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the reader...
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by William Wagstaffe
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

Parodies of Ballad Criticism William Wagstaffe, british physician (1685-1725) This ebook presents «Parodies of Ballad Criticism», from William Wagstaffe. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...
Cover of Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism
by Sibel Irzik
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016

The purpose of this book, first published in 1990, is to call attention to the contrast between the remarkable politicization of the rhetoric of literary criticism and the scarcity of interest in the concrete historical and political contexts of literary texts. Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism will be of interest to students of literature and literary theory.
Cover of The Point Is To Change It

The Point Is To Change It

Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

by Jerome McGann
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015

A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry. In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin...
Cover of Shakespeare and Historical Formalism
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Located at the intersection of new historicism and the 'new formalism', historical formalism is one of the most rapidly growing and important movements in early modern studies: taking seriously the theoretical issues raised by both history and form, it challenges the anti-formalist orthodoxies of...
Cover of New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013

With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990 New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s...
Cover of The Ethics of Criticism
by Tobin Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and...
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Empire Burlesque

The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America

by Daniel T. O'Hara, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003

Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O’Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing...
Cover of Soundings in Cultural Criticism

Soundings in Cultural Criticism

Perspectives and Methods in Culture, Power, and Identity in the New Testament

by Francisco Lozada Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013

A number of disciplines aligned under “cultural criticism” have changed the shape of contemporary biblical studies not only by offering new methods but by questioning old goals and proposing new ones. Soundings in Cultural Criticism offers a collection of succinct essays in these fields by some...
Cover of Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

Many introductions to biblical studies describe critical approaches, but they do not discuss the theological implications. This timely resource discusses the relationship between historical criticism and Christian theology to encourage evangelical engagement with historical-critical scholarship. Charting...
Cover of Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process
by Nella Cotrupi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000

Nella Cotrupi's *Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process *sheds a new conceptual light on Frye, successfully bringing him back into the central ring of contemporary critical thought. Challenging the often dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, Dr. Cotrupi explores the implications...
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The Future of Trauma Theory

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins...
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The Practices of Hope

Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

by Christopher Castiglia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

Offers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when the “hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment....
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Left of Hollywood

Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture

by Chris Robé
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United States....
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