Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Music Theory - Guitar Chords Theory - Circle of 5ths
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
The Circle of 5ths is a fascinating music tool that incorporates many elements of music theory into a visual format.
Just as a color wheel shows how colors blend together in harmony, the Circle of 5ths shows how the 12 unique tones work harmoniously in music.
In this book, I show you...
Music Theory - Basic Chords - Chord Tones 1, 3, b3, 5, b7
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
This music theory book "Music Theory Basic Chords" lays a firm foundation for all piano, guitar and ukulele players who want to learn basic chords.
Once you understand basic chords and how they are structured, you will be able to build extended chords with color tones.
This...
It's Just the Normal Noises
Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify...
Critical Studies 1
Patricia Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Patricia Cornelius is one of Australia’s most awarded and celebrated playwrights. She is known for her confronting plays that often deal with people living on the margins of society, struggling with poverty and prejudice. The Sydney Festival 2017 showcased three of Patricia’s plays, as well as...
by Kate Zambreno
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order―pretending an objectivity where...
An American Triptych
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism...
by Jonathan Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation...
The Pictorial Third
An Essay Into Intermedial Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed ‘intermedial transposition‘....
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods
Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair...
The Poet Resigns
Poetry in a Difficult Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What are we really wishing for when we want poetry to have the prominence it had in the past? Why do American poets overwhelmingly identify with the political left? How do poems communicate? Is there an essential link between formal experimentation and political radicalism? What happens when poetic...
by Arnold Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Arnold believes that the ultimate function of humankind lies in exercising its creative powers. He delineates the function of criticism in this work saying that it filters the contents that will reach society. That a critic can judge the greatness of a literary piece has been asserted.
Ambition and Survival
Becoming a Poet
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition and Survival, not just one of the best books of poetry criticism in a generation, but a spiritual...
Images of History
Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter...
by Michael Morony
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1991
The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.