Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Sublime Noise
Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How—and why—did...
The power of vulnerability
Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. Contributors such as Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed examine how...
The Gothic Family Romance
Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. Such recurring tropes are examined in this pioneering study by Margot Gayle Backus to show how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth...
by Jonathan Culler
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the...
Rosa's Adult Piano Lessons Reharmonization Level 4 Circle of 5ths - ii7 iii7 vi7
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Reharmonization Kit 1 Level 4: Circle of 5ths - ii7 vi7 iii7
If ever you want to play by ear, this is the course you must take!
You are going to learn how to dynamically use the Circle of 5ths to harmonize a song.
Do you ever wonder how** jazzy chord progressions** are used in popular...
by Judith Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides...
by David Huddart
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial...
by Ray Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This is a hacks-only version of Part 1 in the series: Hack Music Theory. Each hack delivers all the vital info you need to know about each topic. Read through all these hacks in a half hour, and you'll be making good music in less than an hour from now. However, you'll miss out on a bunch of bad jokes...
Hack Music Theory, Part 1
Learn Scales & Chords in 30 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his...
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora
A Philosophical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics scrutinizes Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen’s theory of capability, which rose as a critique of the modern American philosopher John Rawls’s theory of primary goods. Ashmita Khasnabish develops Sen’s theory of capability...
Theory Matters
The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended?
Grouping...
The Mark of Theory
Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we theorize? The Mark of Theory argues that inscription constitutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory.
As a trope that draws on a wide array of practices of marking, from tattooing to circumcision, from photographic imprints...
Science Fiction Criticism
An Anthology of Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:
·Definitions and boundaries of the...
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded by many as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, whose ‘Canterbury Tales’ helped establish the legitimacy of Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin....