Criticism category: 58377 books
Georges Bernanos
The Theological Source of His Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Michael Tobin's study is part literary criticism, part biography. Tobin follows Bernanos and his family from France to Spain during the Civil War and then to Brazil and North Africa. He also provides a thematic synthesis of Bernanos' novels and his extensive body of non-fiction, demonstrating that one...
by Eric Sellin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) conceived and inaugurated the 'Theater of Cruelty,' a dramatic movement that has had a profound influence on the avant-garde theater in Europe and the United States. The movement is exemplified by the Peter Brook production of Marat-Sade. This book, the first to analyze...
All Ears
The Aesthetics of Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized...
The Barbara Johnson Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary...
Deep Refrains
Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance?
In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings...
Literature and The Contemporary
Fictions and Theories of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature...
Punk Is Dead
Modernity Killed Every Night
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy,...
by Barbara Cantalupo
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Although Edgar Allan Poe is most often identified with stories of horror and fear, there is an unrecognized and even forgotten side to the writer. He was a self-declared lover of beauty who “from childhood’s hour . . . [had] not seen / As others saw.” Poe and the Visual Arts is the first comprehensive...
Critical Terrains
French and British Orientalisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady...
Concertos and Choral Works
Selections from Essays in Musical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Drawn from the well-known musicologist's celebrated Essays in Musical Analysis, this volume contains nearly all of the concertos in the standard repertoire, from Bach's concerto for two violins to Walton's concerto for viola. More than fifty selections include choral works with in-depth essays on Bach's...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1794-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...
by Helena Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman...
Renegotiating French Identity
Musical Culture and Creativity in France during Vichy and the German Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed music as a marker of national identity and cultural achievement, but so too did Vichy. From the opera to...
The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought
Selected Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book explores Sara Coleridge's critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical and English literature.