Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Christopher Warley
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Why study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature also means reading class. Warley demonstrates that careful reading offers the best way to understand social relations and in doing so he offers...
by Lionel Trilling
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s...
by E.K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is justified...
Edward Said's Translocations
Essays in Secular Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and the distinct historical experiences of colonizer and colonized. This book brings into focus...
Edgar Allan Poe
Beyond Gothicism
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in...
by Thomas De Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
This 1909 collection by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater includes his famous essay “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth,” plus writings on rhetoric, style and language, literary theory, Pope, Milton, Wordsworth, Lamb, and others.
Complete Essays, Literary Criticism, Cryptography, Autography, Translations & Letters
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Po's complete nonfiction works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism...
by I.A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that...
by Paul Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the institutional history and disciplinary future of creative writing in the contemporary academy, looking well beyond the perennial questions 'can writing be taught?' and 'should writing be taught?'.
Paul Dawson traces the emergence of creative writing alongside the new criticism...
by Eric Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths' original, fully-argued, and richly...
by Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to music and...
Orpheus and Eurydice
A Graphic-Poetic Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The story of Orpheus's tragic quest into the underworld to rescue his true love Eurydice back from the dead is one that has haunted the western imagination for over 2,000 years through many tellings, re-tellings, appropriations and adaptations.
A unique coming together of poetry, art and criticism,...
by Lobke Sprenkeling
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
This work investigates exhaustively the musical references in Dante's Commedia. It is a critical survey of their literal and symbolical significance within Dante's narrative. Although Inferno, realm of Anti-Music, apparently only contains noises, there are several parodic referrals to music....
Utopian Novels in Victorian England
Three comments on the possibility and desirability of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Victorian Novels, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare three of the most influential Utopian novels...