Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...
Russian Formalist Criticism
Four Essays, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory.
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Comedy and the Woman Writer
Woolf, Spark, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty—perhaps the impossibility—of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent...
by William J. Handy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
An author’s true meaning has always been largely a matter of opinion among literary critics, even when only objective language was analyzed. However, a writer’s inner meaning, which perhaps not even he or she consciously realizes, interests the “new critics,” who base their theory of criticism...
Figures of Memory
From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Zsolt Komáromy’s Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the ideological...
by James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his writing has been a source of both...
Practical Criticism
A Study of Literary Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Linguist, critic, poet, psychologist, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known, however, as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings...
The Winnowing Fan
Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary...
Literature and Liberty
Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive —...
by Byron Almén
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical...
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...
Feminist Theory Across Disciplines
Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...
The Schenker Project
Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and...