Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience
Polish Studies in Literary History and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The volume From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience contains a wide selection of essays, which were published during past decades in academic journal Teksty Drugie and were widely appreciated as significant contributions to the ongoing debate on principles and methods of literary studies. Articles...
The Values of Literary Studies
Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called...
Transcendentalist Hermeneutics
Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1990
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren’t really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here’s the book you need to sort it all out—and enjoy doing so!
In Literary Theory...
by Andrew Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its subject, Andrew Parker focuses primarily on...
After Derrida
Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his theories. Today, one witnesses a general return...
by Professor Sean Latham, Dr Gayle Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
What exactly is "modernism†?? And how and why has its definition changed over time?
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term "modernism†? from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist...
The Critical Pulse
Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This unprecedented anthology asks thirty-six leading literary and cultural critics to elaborate on the nature of their profession. With the humanities feeling the pinch of financial and political pressures, and its disciplines resting on increasingly uncertain conceptual ground, there couldn't be...
Music as Message
An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents...
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes
Studies in Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional...
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century
Translated by Neil K. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner were crucial...
The Way Things Go
An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and...
Fractured Borders
Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers of women face the searing realities of the disease and give testimony to its ravages and revelations.
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's...
by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...