Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Beckett's Late Stage
Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how...
Fossil Poetry
Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon...
The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided...
Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective
Mallarme, Flaubert, and Eminescu
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term going back to Aristotle. It carries a wide range of meanings, including imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, and the presentation of self. In modern literary criticism, mimesis has received renewed attention in the last two or three...
by Keir Elam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows how this new 'science' can provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance,...
Aesthetics of Discomfort
Conversations on Disquieting Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally...
by Ms Ariana Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity...
Schoenberg's New World
The American Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Arnold Schoenberg was a polarizing figure in twentieth century music, and his works and ideas have had considerable and lasting impact on Western musical life. A refugee from Nazi Europe, he spent an important part of his creative life in the United States (1933-1951), where he produced a rich variety...
by David Damschroder
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This innovative book continues David Damschroder's radical reformulation of harmonic theory, presenting a dynamic exploration of harmony in the compositions of Mendelssohn and Schumann, two key figures of nineteenth-century classical music. This volume's introductory chapters creatively introduce...
What Do Pictures Want?
The Lives and Loves of Images
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?
According to W. J. T....
Listening to Noise and Silence
Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment,...
Beyond Unwanted Sound
Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound.
Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories,...
Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality
Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple, clear, and systematic...
Professing Literature
An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our...