Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Richard Storer
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today’s students and general readers’ – Chris Terry, Times Higher Education
F.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. His outspoken...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments...
Sonic Possible Worlds
Hearing the Continuum of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops “possible world theory” in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic...
Organized Time
Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason Yust demonstrates...
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies
Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism...
by Nancy Easterlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation.
Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still...
King Lear and the Naked Truth
Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld seriously questions the critical assumptions of much of today’s most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a theory of language and interpretation that...
The Signifying Power of Pearl
Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly...
Intentions
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes...
by Owen Hulatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches
Discusses...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional...