Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
The Broken Estate
Essays on Literature and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
The volume is divided into six sections that consider:
the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and...
Freedom and the Arts
Essays on Music and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is perpetual negotiation required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work.
Kerouac on Record
A Literary Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy...
by Leslie C. Dunn, Katherine R. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England....
Text and Act
Essays on Music and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field....
On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven,...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys...
The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen
Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial...
Blutopia
Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each influenced by a common musical and spiritual...
Flyboy 2
The Greg Tate Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles...
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Source criticism—analysis of a writer’s source material—has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers’...
by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather alien to those brought up in the highly...