Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Wai-chew Sim
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.
In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:
a biographical...
Better Living Through Criticism
How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory
Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou,...
The Subject and Other Subjects
On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one...
Thinking Through Poetry
Field Reports on Romantic Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think 'through' - 'by means of', 'with'- poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible with a second meaning: 'thinking through' poems...
Building a National Literature
The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine...
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic...
Text, Theory, Space
Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space.
Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines...
Theatre/Theory/Theatre
The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists – poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers...
by Janet Todd
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the uncovering of female voices...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke...
Improper Modernism
Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.