Criticism category: 58377 books
Genius Envy
Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.”...
Dile que le he escrito un blues
Del texto como partitura a la partitura como traducción en la literatura latinoamericana
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A partir de un verso de Joaquín Sabina, "Dile que le he escrito un blues", pero también de la interdisciplinariedad de George Steiner, de la crítica musical y literaria de Edward Said o de las concepciones antagónicas sobre la interpretación de Stravinsky o Borges, este libro aborda...
Keeping up Her Geography
Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and...
by Simone Conen
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Trier (Literature Studies), course: Proseminar Oscar Wilde, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Victorian England was puritan and it stressed...
The Signifying Power of Pearl
Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning...
Perspectives of Roman Poetry
A Classics Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Written by leading specialists, the essays in Perspectives of Roman Poetry seek to provide a broad range of readers with a good understanding of some essential aspects of major Roman poets and poetic genres. The value of the essays is enhanced, for comparative purposes, by their extensive reference to...
Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen)
A French Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
First published in 1924, this unique title provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective on Jane Austen, offering analysis from both sides of the channel. The book includes both a translated study of Jane Austen by French academic Léonie Villard, and a study by influential...
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy
Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Behn, Shadwell, Congreve, Trotter, Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix—as well as much modern scholarship about them—taint almost all...
by Patrick Jagoda
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1994
In the history of modern theatre, Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this 1994 Companion explore his life and work, providing an invaluable reference work for students. In chronological terms they range from an account of Ibsen's earliest pieces, through the years of rich...
Ghalib
Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), popularly, Ghalib, is the most influential poet of the Urdu language. He is noted for the ghazals he wrote during his lifetime, which have since been interpreted and sung by different people in myriad ways. Ghalib’s popularity has today extended beyond the Indian...
The Music of Tragedy
Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures...
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse
Order in Variety
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.