Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Pocket Music Theory For Everybody
"Things you should know" (Questions and Answers)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Are you curious about music theory? Are you an inspiring artist? Do you play an instrument? Are you a music student or do you just love music? Do you like quizzes? If you want to self-study the basis of music theory then "Pocket Music Theory For Everybody" is a good place to start.
Alterity and Criticism
Tracing Time in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of...
Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory (Music Instruction)
A Comprehensive and Convenient Source for All Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
(Book). Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary , this handy pocket-sized book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market! A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician, it includes thorough, yet to easy-to-understand analysis of: intervals,...
From Alienation to Forms of Life
The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'. Dickens's tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren's Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster's biography after Dickens's death. Such a revelation partly explains the dominance of biography in early Dickens criticism; Dickens's...
Cybersemiotics
Why Information Is Not Enough
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics...
Berlioz on Music
Selected Criticism 1824-1837
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, yet there has...
by Cortney Westbrook
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Artistic Mind's Complete Guide to Beginner Music Theory explains how to read sheet music, how to use formulas to build scales and chords and also gives helpful tips on how to implement Music Theory into everyday practicing. This book will teach the fundamentals of music theory to any individual...
Children of the Dark House
Text and Context in Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Polished and refitted into a new critical matrix, these essays by a distinguished Faulkner editor and scholar in no way resemble the casual self-anthologizing often encountered. Polk's stature as a critic meshes neatly with his work as an editor; his patent joy at the very sight of Faulkner manuscripts...
Three Traveling Women Writers
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed...
Ted Hughes
Alternative Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
This is the first collection of essays to be published since the poet's death. Continuing a tradition of more than thirty years of Ted Hughes studies, it gathers contributions by most of the major international Hughes scholars, voicing their critical preoccupations at the turn of the century.
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Medieval Theory of Authorship
Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now...
Towards a Global Music Theory
Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to blossom...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical...