Criticism category: 58377 books
The Tragedy of Jimmy Porter
Overview of the critical opinions about 'Look Back in Anger' and development of a thesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: It is widely accepted that John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger was a turning-point in the history of British theatre, a milestone...
Writing otherwise
Experiments in cultural criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Writing otherwise is a collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. Leading figures in their field, such as Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, all risk new ways...
After '89
Polish theatre and the political
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural...
André Gide Igor Strawinsky: "Perséphone"
Von der Idee zum vollendeten Werk bei Betrachtung der verschiedenen Denkweisen von Schriftsteller und Komponist
Language: German
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In Perséphone vereinten zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre mit André Gide und Igor Strawinsky zwei der bedeutendsten Kunstschaffenden ihrer Zeit ihr Können. Diese Studie zielt daher – neben der Nachzeichnung der Entstehungsgeschichte – auf eine Gegenüberstellung der unterschiedlichen Charaktere, die...
Nestroyana
34. Jahrgang 2014 - Heft 1/2
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft. Die NESTROYANA erscheinen als Zeitschrift der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft...
John McGahern
Authority and vision
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy. Featuring a range of distinguished contributors, including...
Reframing Yeats
Genre, Allusion and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, traces the historical development of W. B. Yeats's writings across the genres, examining his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama with the same critical analysis.
While existing studies of Yeats's work choose between...
The ethics of war
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The ethics of war explores the moral limits and possibilities of conflict. The argument proceeds from a just war standpoint which balances rules or principles against the moral capacities and dispositions of belligerents and the particular circumstances in which they act. In this enlarged second edition,...
Phonopoetics
The Making of Early Literary Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded,...
by Charles Baudouin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Originally published in 1924, this title is divided into four parts, each looking at contemporary issues. Beginning with ‘The Liberators of the Mind’, the author discusses important thinkers of the time, such as Tolstoy and Nietzsche. The second part looks at ‘The War and the Peace’, which...
Lord Byron's Cain
Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron's notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen "from Kentish town to Pisa." From...
Cheiron's Way
Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education...
The Stronger Sex
The Fictional Women of Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man. Durrell's modern twentieth- /twenty-first-century woman is the center of...
by Liam Haydon
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The Defence of Poesy is the first major piece of literary criticism in English. Taking aim at classical authors who disparaged poetry, and contemporary critics who saw literature as a corrupting influence, Sidney foregrounds the moral force of poetry. Sidney considers the real life affects of poetry...