Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Melodrama
An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that...
The Literature of Waste
Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality features 14 new essays by leading specialists in critical theory, comparative literature, philosophy, and English literature. The essays, which present wide-ranging historical considerations of negation in light of recent developments in poststructuralism...
Through a Glass Darkly
Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Sacred Space and the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime
Richard J. Lane
Richard Lane argues that post-structuralist and postmodern theory must enter, as it were, a “sacred space” to reflect on its relation to religion in the humanities, an entrance encouraged by the...
The Poetics of the Everyday
Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"-recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention.
Focusing on the poems...
The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals)
Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture...
by Jordan Kistler
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his contributions to Victorian poetry. O'Shaughnessy's engagement with aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian...
by Adam Ockelford
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn’t) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers. **
A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores...
by Milton Babbitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years, Babbitt has grappled profoundly with central questions in the composition and apprehension of music....
On Longing
Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1992
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the...
Shakespeare's Big Men
Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Shakespeare’s Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies – Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus – through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology’s theory of the origins of human society explains the social...
by Loren Kajikawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows...
by David Damschroder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
David Damschroder's ongoing reformulation of harmonic theory continues with a dynamic exploration of how Beethoven molded and arranged chords to convey bold conceptions. This book's introductory chapters are organized in the manner of a nineteenth-century Harmonielehre, with individual considerations...
The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft
'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and...