Criticism category: 58377 books
by Daniel Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that...
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt
Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan gathers pioneering essays by major scholars in Filipino American Studies, American Studies, and Philippine Studies as well as historic documents on Carlos Bulosan’s work and life for the first time. This anthology—which...
by Odagiri Hideo, Hirano Ken, Sasaki Kiichi
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and...
Love and its Critics
From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism...
by Melissa Grönebaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 2,0, National University of Ireland, Galway, language: English, abstract: During the last decades feminist literary criticism has increased and also looks back on the past of literary of Romanticism. 'The first stage...
"To Tread on New Ground"
Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly...
Seeing Through Music
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of...
by Dr. Richard Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The description for this book, Anatomy of Criticism, will be forthcoming.
Some Other Note
The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of...
Discovering Modernism
T. S. Eliot and His Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed...
Reader in Comedy
An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships...
Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change
"Pragmatism Not Idealism"
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Even prior to the field’s invention, Susanne Langer implied that the arts are all subtopics of Communication Studies. This unique project has effectively allowed the author to combine his backgrounds in the interdisciplinary fields of popular music studies, cultural theory, communication studies,...