Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Listen Again
A New History of Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
How do you tell the key of a piece—without looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a ‘breakdown of tonality’ in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These questions and others are the...
by Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism...
American Theorists of the Novel
Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers...
by Peter Brooker, Peter Widdowson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary...
by Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.
Autonomy
The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations,...
Shakespeare's Folly
Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities...
Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
The Art of English Poesy
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into...
Ambiguous Discourse
Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection...
Politics and Letters
Interviews with New Left Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms...
Criticism
Ideas in Profile
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics
At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics, making our own judgements and interpretations....
The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals)
Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals,...