Criticism category: 58377 books
Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
Double Threads
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our...
by Norman T. Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society.
Seneca's drama shows the nature of...
Clarissa's Ciphers
Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically...
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
by Joe Nutt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
What’s the point of poetry? It’s a question asked in classrooms all over the world, but it rarely receives a satisfactory answer. Which is why so many people, who read all kinds of books, never read poetry after leaving school.
Exploring twenty-two works from poets as varied as William...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the...
Using Critical Theory
How to Read and Write About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected...
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests a four-part framework for analyzing and...
Money and Modernity
Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.
The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly...
Love Minus Zero
The Dialectic of Existentialism and Religious Faith in Bob Dylan's Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This thesis outlines the influence of Judeo-Christian Religious Faith and American literature of the lyrics of American songwriter Bob Dylan, who rose to prominence in the culture of 1960s America.
by Alisa Westermann
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Samuel Richardson, language: English, abstract: By its publication, the novel 'Pamela' became one of the most popular contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of literary theory. These essays represent leading research in psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, Continental theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, philosophy, cybernetics, aesthetics,...
Reading Project
A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Electronic literature is a rapidly growing area of creative production and scholarly interest. It is inherently multimedial and multimodal, and thus demands multiple critical methods of interpretation. Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless...
by John Deigh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years. In the first five essays, Deigh ask questions about the nature of emotions and the relation of evaluative judgment to the intentionality of emotions, and critically examines the cognitivist...