Criticism category: 58377 books
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...
by Roger W. H. Savage
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings...
by John Casey
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by scientific...
Theatre Criticism
Changing Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The world of theatre criticism is rapidly changing in its form, function and modes of operation in the twenty-first century.
The dominance of the internet has led to a growing trend of selfappointed theatre critics and bloggers who are changing the focus and purpose of the discussion around...
by I.A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that...
by Rachid Merzouki
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Literature Review from the year 2013 in the subject Literature - Basics, grade: BA, Mohamed I University, course: english studies, language: English, abstract: Despite all its shortcomings, literary criticism still supplies both the writer and the reader with the tools for self-evaluation and self-improvement....
Johnson's Critical Presence
Image, History, Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of...
Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative
Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist...
Pretensions of Objectivity
Toward a Criticism of Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested. Examining the history and roots of modern biblical scholarship shows that such objectivity is elusive, and was never intended...
Risk Criticism
Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953....
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British...
The One Mind
C. G. Jung and the future of literary criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal consciousness,...
by James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
James Blish, in his incarnation as "William Atheling, Jr.," has written more than his share of the most incisive criticism of contemporary science fiction. In 1964 Advent brought out The Issue at Hand, a collection of Atheling's critical essays on stories in the science-fiction magazines.Now...
Feminist Ecocriticism
Environment, Women, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction....