Criticism category: 58377 books
Such a King Harry
Falstaff Vs. Hal
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This study of Shakespeares Falstaff versus Shakespeare Criticism takes a view of Falstaff that is critically unorthodox but which is supported by the text. This reading of the Falstaff plays sees the playwright basing his fiction on natural law, but bending natural law to present a world of personified...
Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton
Fashioning the Self after Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.
Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet
Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies, this study mines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to produce new insights into the early modern family, the individual, and society in the context of early modern capitalism. Inspired...
by Nancy Moore Goslee
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Shelley's drafts and notebooks, which have recently been published for the first time, are very revealing about the creative processes behind his poems, and show - through illustrations and doodles - an unexpectedly vivid visual imagination which contributed greatly to the effect of his poetry. Shelley's...
by Ute Berns
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Bringing together eminent scholars and emerging critics who offer a range of perspectives and critical methods, this collection sets a new standard in Beddoes criticism. In line with the goals of Ashgate's Research Companion series, the editors and contributors provide an overview of Beddoes's criticism...
by Sandie Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.
by Enit Karafili Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by F. R. Leavis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
It is difficult now to imagine the shock that this book caused when it was first published in 1932. The author was a teacher at a Cambridge college, an intensely serious man who had been seriously wounded by poison gas on the Western Front, and he was not disposed to suffer foolishness gladly. His...
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama
Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting...
On Not Defending Poetry
Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Sidney's Defence of Poesy—the foundational text of English poetics—is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's...
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional...
by Linda Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of ‘autobiography’? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include:
developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts
different forms of the...
Imaginary Existences
A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and creative manner, convincingly demonstrating...