Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative
Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist...
Dile que le he escrito un blues
Del texto como partitura a la partitura como traducción en la literatura latinoamericana
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A partir de un verso de Joaquín Sabina, "Dile que le he escrito un blues", pero también de la interdisciplinariedad de George Steiner, de la crítica musical y literaria de Edward Said o de las concepciones antagónicas sobre la interpretación de Stravinsky o Borges, este libro aborda...
by Patrick Jagoda
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected...
The Music of Tragedy
Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures...
by Ute Berns
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Bringing together eminent scholars and emerging critics who offer a range of perspectives and critical methods, this collection sets a new standard in Beddoes criticism. In line with the goals of Ashgate's Research Companion series, the editors and contributors provide an overview of Beddoes's criticism...
Reading Literature Today
Two Complementary Essays and a Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Reading Literature Today is a path-breaking intervention in current debates on reading and literature. This is a book of criticism that attempts to rescue literature from both the materialism of the market and the convoluted dryness of academia.
The two complementary essays-one on literature...
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....
by Sandro Naglia
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2012
«Ogni trascrizione cinematografica di un’opera letteraria ripropone inevitabilmente il problema del confronto tra l’opera originale e la trascrizione stessa».Questa monografia su Morte a Venezia di Luchino Visconti – tramite un attento studio comparativo del testo filmico rispetto a quello...
by John Constable, I. A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Paul Stasi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Modernist art and literature sought to engage with the ideas of different cultures without eradicating the differences between them. In Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense, Paul Stasi explores the relationship between high modernist aesthetic forms and structures of empire in the twentieth...
by Timothy Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
The Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called 'Anthropocene')...
John Donne's Performances
Sermons, poems, Letters and devotions
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically these major characteristics of his work.
Drawing on J. L. Austin's speech act theory, Margret Fetzer's...
Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought
The Radical Unspoken
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence – through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body – across the textual imaginations...
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining...