Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in philosophy, political theory, and literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art...
by Alison Hood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But this binary opposition is a false one, which serves neither the theorist nor the performer. In Interpreting...
Shakespeare in Quebec
Nation, Gender, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Shakespeare in Qu**ébec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Québec since the Quiet Revolution. Using postcolonial and gender theory, Drouin traces the evolution of discourses of nation and gender in Québec from the Conquest of...
Music and the Myth of Wholeness
Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
A new theory of aesthetics and music, grounded in the collision between language and the body.
In this book, Tim Hodgkinson proposes a theory of aesthetics and music grounded in the boundary between nature and culture within the human being. His analysis discards the conventional idea of the...
by Samuel Weber
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related...
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to AlejandroAmenábar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies helps students master the history, theory...
The Critical Nexus
Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a broad framework that moves...
Hamlet
Fold on Fold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive—very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover, our...
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature
From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several...
Revolution
The Event in Postwar Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century—still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age—and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that...
Literary Modernism and Beyond
The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition,...
by Timothy Bewes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust?...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas...
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State
Character and Governance in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its...