Criticism category: 58377 books
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining...
Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)
A Documentary Record
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The material includes prefaces to collections, translations and original novels; essays written for journals...
by Stanley E. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus
Philosophical and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmaticpower and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the...
Cutting Jesus Down to Size
What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In this provocative book, noted scholar G. A. Wells tells the story of Higher Criticism: the close study of the scriptures that reveals difficulties and discrepancies. Wells traces the discipline’s German beginnings, exploring the problems in the New Testament that prompted scholars to revise traditional...
by Mr. Adam Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch...
by David Lyle Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The God of the Bible often speaks in poetry.Beginning with an illuminating exploration of eloquence in the divine voice, a highly acclaimed professor of literature opens up the treasury of biblical tradition among English poets both past and present, showing them to be well attuned not only to Scripture's...
Inventing Agency
Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the "subject†?-of...
Art and Pluralism
Lawrence Alloway's Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was one of the most influential and widely respected (as well as prolific) art writers of the post-war years. His many books, catalogue essays and reviews manifest the changing paradigms of art away from the formal values of modernism towards the inclusiveness of the visual...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne is a literary giant of American literature, whose works have gone on to inspire many other great writers. This eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring the prolific writer’s work, as well as an assortment of bonus texts. (Current version: 2)
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by Howells,William Dean
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A splendid work of criticism that introduces us to Howell, the well-versed literary critic. He discusses the writings of various authors through the ages - for instance Cervantes, Shakespeare, Pope, Tolstoy - in great detail. His criticism is based on his in-depth study which makes the book highly informative. Truly enlightening!
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....
by David Duff
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Since Aristotle, genre has been one of the fundamental concepts of literary theory, and much of the world's literature and criticism has been shaped by ideas about the nature, function and value of literary genres. Modern developments in critical theory, however, prompted in part by the iconoclastic...