Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations...
Close Reading
The Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2002
An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner on subjects from Dante to Dickens.
Some one said*: “The dead writers are remote from us because we* know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Celebrated poet and playwright T. S. Eliot was one of the twentieth...
by Jonathan Gil Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original...
Novel Gazing
Queer Readings in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory...
Invalid Women
Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
*"A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.--Belles Lettres
"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and...
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars...
Music Theory through Musical Theatre
Putting It Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory. Written specifically for students in music theatre programs, it offers music theory by way of musical theatre. Not a traditional music theory text, Music Theory through Musical Theatre tackles the theoretical foundations...
Textual Awareness
A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's...
Politics by Other Means
Selected Criticism from Review 31
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books...
How to Be an Intellectual
Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
by Roger W. H. Savage
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings...
Reader in Comedy
An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships...