Criticism category: 58377 books
The Ancient Critic at Work
Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia significantly adds to and enhances the picture that can be gained from studying the relevant treatises (such...
by Dominik Borner
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Bamberg, course: Proseminar: Reading British Short Stories, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Early in the morning she rises, The...
by Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism
From Taha to Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Quranic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation and explication....
by Tadeusz Pióro
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book is a comprehensive approach to interpreting Frank O’Hara’s highly influential work. Frank O’Hara’s poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art....
by Niklas Manhart
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Englische Philologie), course: Proseminar Postcolonial Literature, language: English, abstract: Ever since its publication in 1999, J.M. Coetzee's award-winning novel Disgrace...
Narratology and Ideology
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures in the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has...
by Robert K. Weninger
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"The first comprehensive account of the enormous impact of Joyce on German modernist and postmodern writers. An indispensable book on Joyce's 'German' face."—Gerald Gillespie, Stanford University In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus...
John Clare
Nature, Criticism and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book investigates what it is that makes John Clare’s poetic vision so unique, and asks how we use Clare for contemporary ends. It explores much of the criticism that has appeared in response to his life and work, and asks hard questions about the modes and motivations of critics and editors....
by Rukun Advani
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction...
Poems in Their Place
Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself -- the concept and the material fact -- as an object of interpretation. The authors argue that the decisions poets make about the presentation of their works...
Reader in Tragedy
An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways...
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and...