Criticism category: 58377 books
The Birth of New Criticism
Conflict and Conciliation in the Early Work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald...
by Frank Kermode
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection...
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Between Literature and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a literary scholar, proposes that a new form of...
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day
An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women.
Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems...
Development of Modern Art Criticism in India after Independence
Post Independence Indian Art Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Any artistic creation, be it a painting or sculpture, initiates a reaction within us, invoking within us a desire to analyse or evaluate it. The criticism of art definitely has its presence. But the question is—in what form and of what relevance is it?
Art criticism is exclusively presented in the...
Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism
Reading Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function'...
Criticism
Ideas in Profile
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics
At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics, making our own judgements and interpretations....
by George A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism provides readers of the Bible with an important tool for understanding the Scriptures. Based on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric in the New Testament, George Kennedy's approach acknowledges that New Testament writers wrote to persuade...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Digital technology and the Internet have revolutionized film criticism, programming, and preservation in deeply paradoxical ways. The Internet allows almost everyone to participate in critical discourse, but many print publications and salaried positions for professional film critics have been eliminated....
The Social Life of Criticism
Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women writers imagined themselves—in literary essays, periodical reviews, and even works of fiction—as participants in complex networks of literary exchange....
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Rise Of Historical Criticism (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and...
Ireland and Ecocriticism
Literature, History and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism, Flannery’s readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry,...
by Ole Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar ), course: Twentieth Century Crime Fiction, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay will explore how social...