Criticism category: 58377 books
BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Beyond the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Biblical criticism is an umbrella term covering various techniques for applying literary historical-critical methods in analyzing and studying the Bible and its textual content. Biblical criticism is also known as higher criticism, literary criticism, and historical criticism. Biblical criticism has...
BASICS OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Helpful or Harmful?
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Biblical criticism is an umbrella term covering various techniques for applying literary historical-critical methods in analyzing and studying the Bible and its textual content. Biblical criticism is also known as higher criticism, literary criticism, and historical criticism. Biblical criticism...
BASICS OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Helpful or Harmful?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The term criticism can either be viewed in a negative light as most would expect, but also in a positive light as well. The negative is "a spoken or written opinion or judgment of what is wrong or bad about somebody or something." The positive is simply the assessment of something, be it a car, a...
BIBLICAL CRITICISM
What are Some Outstanding Weaknesses of Modern Historical Criticism?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Historical Criticism of the Bible got started in earnest, known then as Higher Criticism, during the 18th and 19th centuries, it is also known as the Historical-Critical Method of biblical interpretation. Are there any weakness to the Historical-Critical Method of biblical interpretation (Historical...
Understanding Biblical Criticism
What It Is * What It Does * Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The term “biblical criticism” simply means discerning the most accurate text of the Bible (“textual criticism”) and then exploring issues such as who wrote the various books of the Bible, when they were written, and the circumstances of the writing (“higher criticism”). Yet because the word...
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...
The Invention of English Criticism
1650–1760
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater: dramatists and other poets argued about their craft in contending prefaces and dedications, and their disputes...
by Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public....
by Lee Andrew Elioseff
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initially,...
Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.
Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference....
by Mattias Frey, Greg Taylor, Cecilia Sayad
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The Language and Style of Film Criticism brings together original essays from an international range of academics and film critics highlighting the achievements, complexities and potential of film criticism.
In recent years, in contrast to the theoretical, historical and cultural study of film,...
Psychoanalytic Criticism
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud...
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE TRUTH
Walk in His Truth Because He Is the God of Our salvation, [Updated and Expanded]
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Historical criticism, also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism, is a branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text in order to determine authorship, date of writing and historical accuracy of the Bible, in the light of archaeology and history....