Criticism category: 58377 books

Cover of The Theatre of Martin Crimp
by Aleks Sierz
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp and a host of directors and actors who have...
Cover of André Bazin
by Dudley Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

André Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinéma, remains the most influential...
Cover of Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

Source criticism—analysis of a writer’s source material—has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers’...
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The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry

Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America

by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010

"For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book." --- Jerome Sala, Pleiades "Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly...
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The Forest and the Field

Changing Theatre in a Changing World

by Chris Goode
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015

CAN THEATRE CHANGE THE WORLD? In his first full-length book, critically acclaimed writer and maker Chris Goode explores the relationships that make up the theatrical encounter: between ‘empty’ space and inhabited place; between actors and audiences; between theatre itself and the world...
Cover of American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870
by Barbara A. White
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately...
Cover of An Army of Phantoms

An Army of Phantoms

American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

by J. Hoberman
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013

The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment). An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman....
Cover of The Birth-mark: Essays
by Susan Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature. In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author...
Cover of Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage

Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage

Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business

by Joel Berkowitz, Barbara Henry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Collects leading scholars’ insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater.
Cover of Putting Modernism Together

Putting Modernism Together

Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927

by Daniel Albright
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to...
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George Farquhar

A Migrant Life Reversed

by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018

George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces*, The Recruiting Officer* and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family...
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Art and Faith

Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau

by Jean Cocteau, Jacques Maritain
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

The meaning of poetry and the sociological and political significance of art are dealt with in these letters.
Cover of The Rise of the African Novel

The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental...
Cover of Teenage Nervous Breakdown
by David Walley
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Era combines music and cultural history and criticism to examine how rock and the rock lifestyle have been merchandised first to a teenage audience and eventually to a worldwide consumer society. Well-known, iconoclastic writer/ critic David Walley examines the entire rock culture and
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