Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor
A Modern and Critical Edition- Edited by Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580–1640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group’s most successful and celebrated...
by Marina Cano
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen’s work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur theatricals, passing through mid-twentieth-century...
The Ancients and the Postmoderns
On the Historicity of Forms
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars...
The Native American Renaissance
Literary Imagination and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko...
African American Musical Heritage
An Appreciation, Historical Summary, and Guide to Music Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
LENARD C. BOWIE, DMA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, RETIRED THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE , FLORIDA Dr. Lenard C. Bowie has developed an enviable reputation as a consummate musician. He is a classical trumpet artist, accomplished band director, effective music administrator, skilled...
Basic Elements of Music
A Primer for Musicians, Music Teachers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Basic Elements of Music introduces readers to a wide range of knowledge essential for a well-rounded understanding of music. This primer surveys the history of music and the composers who made that history; the history of instrument families and how the instruments function; an introduction to the...
by Scott McMillin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind...
Shockwaves of Possibility
Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of essays devoted to studying the intersection of race/ethnicity and narrative theories. Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory...
The Grasping Imagination
The American Writings of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works.
This study places James’s career in...
Enchanted Objects
Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While...
by Cynthia Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and...