Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism
The Genesis of 'The Years', 'Three Guineas' and 'Between the Acts'
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex...
Voices in the Wilderness
Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America’s dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work...
The Postcolonial Short Story
Contemporary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
Dickensian Laughter
Essays on Dickens and Humour
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster declared that: 'His...
The Aesthetics of Care
On the Literary Treatment of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature.
The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics...
Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China
Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1993
This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and...
Scheherazade or the Future of the English Novel Thamyris or Is There a Future for Poetry? Saxo Grammaticus Deucalion or the Future of Literary Criticism
Today and Tomorrow Volume Twenty-One
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Scheherazade
Or the Future of the English Novel
John Carruthers
Originally published in 1928
"A brilliant essay…" Daily Herald
A survey of contemporary fiction in England and America lends to the conclusion that the literary and scientific influences...
Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet
From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies...
by Kenneth M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views. Early commentators' efforts to do so failed to establish a thorough or systematic approach. And later twentieth-century studies turned away from the composer's...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is...
Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo
The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-’l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE. Indeed, nothing comparable survives from the whole Mamluk...
by Nicholas Marston
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the Viennese publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erl�erungsausgabe) of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas. Each publication would comprise a score, newly edited by Schenker and using the composer's autograph manuscript as principal...
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries
Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are...
The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism
Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against...