Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
British Literature and Classical Music
Cultural Contexts 1870-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely...
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History
Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized...
Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy
Florence, Venice and the 'Divine Poet'
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Simon Gilson's new volume provides the first in-depth account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Gilson investigates a range of textual frameworks and related contexts that influenced...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the interrelationships between oral communication and the written word. The Introduction provides an overview of the topic as a whole and links the chapters...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches...
Pedagogic Criticism
Reconfiguring University English Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history. Some of its foundational struggles are still being lived out today. English is characterized as a ‘boundary’ subject, active in dialogue across a number of imagined borders,...
Alban Berg
Music as Autobiography- Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner biography of its creator. Accordingly,...
The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence...
Postethnic Narrative Criticism
Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers...
by Zhang Jiong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Each age has its value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, the mainstream ideology is inevitably Marxism.
This book is composed of two parts. The first part studies literary criticism in contemporary...
by Barbara Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies,"...
Shakespeare
The Last Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays. Kiernan Ryan brings together the most important recent essays on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, the greatest of the `last...
Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now
Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.