Criticism category: 58377 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Soon after Nero's accession in 54 CE, his tutor, the philosopher Seneca, addressed to his young pupil an essay called De Clementia in which he offered advice on how to behave in his new role. This is the first full philological edition of the De Clementia in English. It includes the text with apparatus...
MISREPRESENTING JESUS
Debunking Bart D. Ehrman’s “Misquoting Jesus” [Third Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Edward D. Andrews boldly answers the challenges Bart D. Ehrman alleges against the fully inerrant, Spirit-inspired, authoritative Word of God. By glimpsing into the life of Bart D. Ehrman and following along his course of academic studies, Andrews helps the reader to understand the biases, assumptions,...
Changing Subjects
The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within academia...
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique....
The Craft of Criticism
Critical Media Studies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches,...
Rereading Modernism
New Directions in Feminist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and goals...
A Touch More Rare
Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early...
by José Gabriél Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
New millennium collection of poetry that range from shamanistic nature observation to relationships to abstract thought. The title was chosen by inspiration by the book Criticism by Charles Kaplan, in which a description of a poet is someone whos creative ability transpires from Gods hand[s]. Starting...
Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law
Vindictive Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.
The Winter's Tale
A Commentary on the Structure
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1969.
Critics have in the past described The Winter's Tale as a work of "haphazard structure". More recent criticism has defended the structure of the play and this work shows that the evidence points to the fact that Shakespeare took infinite pains with the choice...
Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of...
Latin American Literature
Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Critical theory meets Latin American fiction in this bold and challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through post-structuralist analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical production from the 1890s to the 1990s, Bernard McGuirk highlights the confrontation between...
Naturally Woman
The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural...