Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry
The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology...
by Stathis Gourgouris
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist,...
by Javed Akhtar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Samuel Beckett was the most eminent dramatist of the absurdist movement of the twentieth century. Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, at Fox rock...
Theoretical Inquiry
Language, Linguistics, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose. This involves the repositioning...
Becoming Heinrich Schenker
Music Theory and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Much controversy surrounds Schenker's mature theory and its attempt to explain musical pitch motion. Becoming Heinrich Schenker brings a new perspective to Schenker's theoretical work, showing that ideas characteristic of his mature theory, although in many respects fundamentally different, developed...
by Heather Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the...
Low End Theory
Bass, Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, studios,...
Stuff Theory
Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the...
by Robert S Hatten
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
This book draws on theories of musical gesture and emotion to develop the first comprehensive theory of virtual musical agency in Western art music. It uses examples from tonal music of well-known Western composers.
The work of a mature scholar, this book represents the culmination of a...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
"The Poetic Principle" is an essay by...
Ways of Being Male
Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of...
Music and the French Enlightenment
Rameau and the Philosophes in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music. The principal participants-Rousseau, Diderot, and d'Alembert-were responding to the views of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, who was...
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to...