Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe...
by William Wagstaffe
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Parodies of Ballad Criticism William Wagstaffe, british physician (1685-1725)
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Theory's Empire
An Anthology of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting...
The Point Is To Change It
Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry.
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990
New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s...
The Practices of Hope
Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Offers a positive approach to literary criticism
At a moment when the “hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment....
Postcolonial Conrad
Paradoxes of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.
The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901. Essays from these two previously unexploited...
The Intimate Critique
Autobiographical Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1993
For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts—above all, "objectivity"—seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement...
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melville criticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is...
Music Theory and Composition
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
***Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approach***presents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the “why” of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting...
Criticism after Critique
Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
After Poststructuralism
Reading, Stories, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'.
In this brilliantly argued volume, Colin Davis:
*reconsiders key arguments for and against theory, identifying...
Literature and the Growth of British Nationalism
The Influence of Romantic Poetry and Bardic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book explores how British Romantic poetry—the writing, reading, and critical reception of it—reinforced British nationalism in the 19th century, ripening the political processes of nationhood that began with the first Act of Union in 1707. Using archival research on literary collections,...