Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
In the Process of Becoming
Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's ground-breaking...
by Michael Lunika, Larysa Lunika
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Music Theory for Teenagers, delivers music theory without confusive movement. By the way you'll get system knowledge of music. This book contains no junk which useally confuse many people forever. Read this book and you’ll gain the perception how to play any musical instrument quite professionally in a short period.
Performing Pain
Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. In Performing Pain, author Maria Cizmic focuses on the late 20th century in Eastern Europe as she uncovers music's relationships...
With Passionate Voice
Re-Creative Singing in Sixteenth-Century England and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Musicians in the 16th century had a vastly different understanding of the structure and performance of music than today's performers. In order to transform inexpressively notated music into passionate declamation, Renaissance singers treated scores freely, and it was expected that each would personalize...
Johann Mattheson's Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre
Mattheson's Universal Style in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Mattheson�s Pi�s de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians...
by Josephine Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles--New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a "shocking and galvanic book"--and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990s....
Subject Without Nation
Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2001
This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil’s Austria was the first postimperial state in modern Europe. Prior to its destruction in 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had ruled over a...
Quotational Practices
Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Literature and art have always depended on imitation, and in the past few decades quotation and appropriation have become dominant aesthetic practices. But critical methods have not kept pace with this development. Patrick Greaney reopens the debate about quotation and appropriation, shifting away...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Maurice Blanchot occupies a central though still-overlooked position in the Anglo-American reception of 20th-century continental philosophy and literary criticism. On the one hand, his rigorous yet always-playful exchanges with the most challenging figures of the philosophical and literary canons...
Signature Pieces
On the Institution of Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf’s view, studying signature will...
The Cinema Ideal
An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis enables...
Antonin Artaud
The Scum of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
by Jane Marie Todd
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings....
Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966)
Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and...