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The Schenker Project

Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna

by Nicholas Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007

Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and...

Reappraisals

Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory

by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants....

A Theory of Semiotics

by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1976

"... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises...

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

by Laurie A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical...

The Colonial Rise of the Novel

by Firdous Azim
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002

In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the coherent and consistent subject which...

Revision as Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Drama

by M. Malburne-Wade
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.

Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book

Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time

by Alan M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald's ground-breaking trilogy. American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research...

T. S. Eliot

by Craig Raine
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2006

The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of...

The Sacred Wood

Essays on Poetry and Criticism

by Rachel Teubner
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: “Tradition and the Individual Talent” helped to re-orientate arguments about the study of literature and its production by redefining the nature of tradition and the artist's relation...

DIFFICULTIES IN THE BIBLE Alleged Errors and Contradictions: Updated and Expanded

by Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Expanding on R. A. Torrey's original Difficulties in the Bible, Edward Andrews answers today's most challenging questions raised against the Bible. Taking the most difficult passages of the Bible and addressing them with humility and determination, Andrews sheds light on the biggest stumbling blocks...

The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works

The Eight Titles Include: An Experiment in Criticism; The Allegory of Love; The Discarded Image; Studies in Words; Image and Imagination; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Selected Literary Essays; and The Personal Heresy

by C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

With his trademark warmth and wit, Lewis offers invaluable insight and intellectual delight for readers. Includes: • An Experiment in Criticism • The Allegory of Love • The Discarded Image • Studies in Words • Image and Imagination • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature • Selected Literary Essays • The Personal Heresy

Edo Kabuki in Transition

From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost

by Satoko Shimazaki
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding...

Music as Dream

Essays on Giacinto Scelsi

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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013

Music as Dream: Essays on Giacinto Scelsi showcases recent scholarly criticism on the music and philosophy of the brilliantly original composer Giacinto Scelsi. In this collection, Franco Sciannameo and Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini select and translate into English for the first time essays that...

An Introduction to Arab Poeti

by Adonis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book, one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry, as well as the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur'an, and between poetry and thought. Adonis...