Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Peter Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including some of the most important essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating the links between literary criticism, education,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. With contributors engaging texts from the...
Lost Transmissions
The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy
Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential...
Classicism of the Twenties
Art, Music, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.
In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore...
by Brenda Beckman-Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields’ critical feminist project has, until now,...
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age
God's Word Questioned
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant...
by Micah Mattix
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his 'borrowing'...
by Gareth Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This work argues that although "The Waste Land" demands close reading, the spirit of the old New Criticism works with inappropriate assumptions about unity and closed form. Many critics have tried to fix the text, to find hidden narratives and plots, spiritual guests and allegories of salvation....
Interpretive Conventions
The Reader in the Study of American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five influential theories of the reading process—those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser,...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one...
The Symphonic Works of Leoš Janáek
From Folk Concepts to Original Style
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janáček. It codifies his compositional style, first through a thorough examination of its origins in folk music and speech-melody, then in discussions of the features of its melody and motivic techniques. His...
Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé
Voice, Conversation and Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
As the status of poetry became less and less certain over the course of the nineteenth century, poets such as Baudelaire and Mallarmé began to explore ways to ensure that poetry would not be overtaken by music in the hierarchy of the arts. Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of these...
by Elena Abramov-van Rijk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This event, namely the first demonstration of the stile recitativo, is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634 by Pietro dei Bardi, son...
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
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: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...