Criticism category: 58377 books
by Keith E. Small
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'an manuscripts. Keith Small analyzes a defined portion of text from the Qur'an with two aims in view: to recover the earliest form of text...
Such a Simple Little Tale
Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
New in paperback 2003.
Here is a compilation of the best critical essays on this enduring classic. Selections focus on the many perspectives from which Anne of Green Gables is viewed. Is it children's literature, or does it fit a different area of literary scholarship? Each of the articles breaks...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
First published in 1969, Professor Hough’s work examines stylistics – the bridge between linguistics and literary criticism. The book gives a short survey of stylistics from a literary point of view, and tries to answer the question of how much stylistics contributes to the understanding of literature....
The Collected Essays Volume One
Occasional Prose, The Writing on the Wall, and Ideas and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Spirited and insightful essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a “delightfully polished writer” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably wrote...
Winifred Holtby's Social Vision
'Members One of Another'
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.
White Flights
Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties “white...
by Amit Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's...
Literary Activism
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where what Amit Chaudhuri calls ‘market activism’ has effected changes – on language, on the measuring...
by Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to music and...
Talking about Pauline Kael
Critics, Filmmakers, and Scholars Remember an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael was one of America’s most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewers. A contributor to the New Yorker from 1968 until 1991, Kael’s reviews were collected in several volumes, including I Lost It at the Movies, Kiss Kiss Bang, Bang Bang, and 5001...
Politics and Drama
Change, Challenge and Transition in Bernard Shaw and Orhan Asena
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
By comparing the literary works of two of the greatest playwrights of our time, Önder Cakirtas reveals the similarities and contrasts between their political views and the political backdrop of their respective nations.
In Britain, George Bernard Shaw, the leading British dramatist for the...
Radical Tragedy
Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama and a classic of cultural...
by Kenneth Tynan, Tom Stoppard
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The best of Kenneth Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.
This volume is an edited selection of theatre criticism by one of the most significant and influential writers on British theatre. Spanning the years 1944...
Volpone
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full, modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone's satire. The introduction...