Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Robert Garner
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book is designed to help guide a beginning music theory dialogue between instructor and student in private one-on-one lessons. Six areas of beginning music theory are covered. The major scale, the natural minor scale, intervals, triads, seventh chords and harmonized major and minor scales. Fingerings,...
Listen Again
A Momentary History of Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen...
by Edna Longley
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist...
Tropologies
Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative”...
Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature
Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This bold study traces the processes by which a ‘history’ and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition.
Focusing on Anglophone...
by Daniel Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that...
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt
Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan gathers pioneering essays by major scholars in Filipino American Studies, American Studies, and Philippine Studies as well as historic documents on Carlos Bulosan’s work and life for the first time. This anthology—which...
by Odagiri Hideo, Hirano Ken, Sasaki Kiichi
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and...
Love and its Critics
From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism...
by Ed Roseman, Peter Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Music theory need not be dreary! Edly's Music Theory for Practical People Level 2 is the second in a two-part e-series of the well-loved paperback, picking up where Level 1 leaves off, with a bit of review for good measure. Its clear and friendly writing and wry humor, coupled with fun illustrations...
by Melissa Grönebaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 2,0, National University of Ireland, Galway, language: English, abstract: During the last decades feminist literary criticism has increased and also looks back on the past of literary of Romanticism. 'The first stage...
"To Tread on New Ground"
Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly...
Seeing Through Music
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of...