Criticism

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781681374093

Get Book

Ecstasy and Terror by Daniel Mendelsohn Pdf

“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.

Author : Camille Bordas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451497550

Get Book

How to Behave in a Crowd by Camille Bordas Pdf

A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist—she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's Poetics. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them—if he doesn't run away from home first. Isidore’s unstinting empathy, combined with his simmering anger, makes for a complex character study, in which the elegiac and comedic build toward a heartbreaking conclusion. With How to Behave in a Crowd, Camille Bordas immerses readers in the interior life of a boy puzzled by adulthood and beginning to realize that the adults around him are just as lost.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134221301

Get Book

On Criticism by Noel Carroll Pdf

In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or to uncover hidden meanings or agendas, but instead to determine what is of value in art. Carroll argues for a humanistic conception of criticism which focuses on what the artist has achieved by creating or performing the work. Whilst a good critic should not neglect to contextualize and offer interpretations of a work of art, he argues that too much recent criticism has ignored the fundamental role of the artist's intentions. Including examples from visual, performance and literary arts, and the work of contemporary critics, Carroll provides a charming, erudite and persuasive argument that evaluation of art is an indispensable part of the conversation of life.

Author : Sonja K. Foss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015061135128

Get Book

Rhetorical Criticism by Sonja K. Foss Pdf

Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027210289

Get Book

Communicational Criticism by Roger D. Sell Pdf

Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now suggests that when so-called literary texts stand the test of time and appeal to a large and heterogeneous circle of admirers, this is because they are genuinely dialogical in spirit. Their writers, rather than telling other people what to do or think or feel, invite them to compare notes, and about topics which take on different nuances as seen from different points of view. So while such texts obviously reflect the taste and values of their widely various provenances, they also channel a certain respect for the human other to whom they are addressed. So much so, that they win a reciprocal respect from members of their audience. In Sell's new book, this ethical interplay becomes the focus of a post-postmodern critique, which sees literary dialogicality as a possible catalyst to new, non-hegemonic kinds of globalization. The argument is illustrated with major reassessments of Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Dickens, Churchill, Orwell, and Pinter, and there are also studies of trauma literature for children, and of ethically oriented criticism itself.

Author : Peter B. Orlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317430551

Get Book

Media Criticism in a Digital Age by Peter B. Orlik Pdf

Media Criticism in a Digital Age introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches to audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. It is intended for those preparing for electronic media careers as well as for anyone seeking to enhance their media literacy. This book takes the unequivocal view that the material heard and seen over digital media is worthy of serious consideration. Media Criticism in a Digital Age applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of programming and advertising content. It offers a rich blend of insights from both industry and academic authorities. These insights range from the observations of Plato and Aristotle to the research that motivates twenty-first century marketing and advertising. Key features of the book are comprised of: multiple video examples including commercials, cartoons and custom graphics to illustrate core critical concepts; chapters reflecting today’s media world, including coverage of broadband and social media issues; fifty perceptive critiques penned by a variety of widely respected media observers and; a supplementary website for professors that provides suggested exercises to accompany each chapter (www.routledge .com/cw/orlik) Media Criticism in a Digital Age equips emerging media professionals as well as perceptive consumers with the evaluative tools to maximize their media understanding and enjoyment.

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-08-13
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262691655

Get Book

Body Criticism by Barbara Maria Stafford Pdf

In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. While she focuses on these metaphors as a reflection of the changing attitudes toward the human body during the period of birth of the modern world, she also presents a strong argument for our need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution—a radical shift from a textbased to a visually centered culture. Stafford agues, in fact, that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.

Author : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko,Galin Tihanov
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822977445

Get Book

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism by Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko,Galin Tihanov Pdf

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in émigré literary theory and criticism. Winner of the 2012 Efim Etkind Prize for the best book on Russian culture, awarded by the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia.

Author : Noel King,Constantine Verevis,Deane Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : OCLC:829059258

Get Book

Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Interviews by Noel King,Constantine Verevis,Deane Williams Pdf

The first part of a planned three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy, tracing critical positions and personnel.

Author : J. W. H. Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000379396

Get Book

Literary Criticism in Antiquity by J. W. H. Atkins Pdf

Originally published in 1934, this book contains the second volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient literary criticism. Atkins concludes his history with a look at the styles of literary criticism prevalent after the rise of the Roman Empire, and includes the responses of figures such as Cicero, Tacitus and Lucian to changes in the literature of their day.

Author : Stephanie LeMenager,Teresa Shewry,Ken Hiltner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136710513

Get Book

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie LeMenager,Teresa Shewry,Ken Hiltner Pdf

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. With contributors engaging texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, the collection brings into focus recent ecocritical concern for the long durations through which environmental imaginations have been shaped. Contributors also address problems of scale, including environmental institutions and imaginations that complicate conventional rubrics such as the national, local, and global. Finally, this collection brings together a set of scholars who are interested in drawing on both the sciences and the humanities in order to find compelling stories for engaging ecological processes such as global climate change, peak oil production, nuclear proliferation, and food scarcity. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century offers powerful proof that cultural criticism is itself ecologically resilient, evolving to meet the imaginative challenges of twenty-first-century environmental crises.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292784376

Get Book

Postethnic Narrative Criticism by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie have made brilliant use of magical realism to articulate the trauma of dislocation and the legacies of colonialism that people of color experience in the postcolonial, multiethnic world. This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Frederick Aldama engages in theoretically sophisticated readings of Ana Castillo's So Far from God, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and The Moor's Last Sigh, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, and Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Coining the term "magicorealism" to characterize these works, Aldama not only creates a postethnic critical methodology for enlarging the contact zone between the genres of novel, film, and autobiography, but also shatters the interpretive lens that traditionally confuses the transcription of the real world, where truth and falsity apply, with narrative modes governed by other criteria.

Author : Appleton Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPAK8

Get Book

Shakespeare in Fact and in Criticism by Appleton Morgan Pdf

Author : Andrea Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443809221

Get Book

New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism by Andrea Campbell Pdf

As ecofeminism continues to gain attention from multiple academic discourses, the field of literary criticism has been especially affected by this philosophy/social movement. Scholars using ecofeminist literary criticism are making new and important arguments concerning literature across the spectrum and issues of environment, race, class, gender, sexuality, and other forms of oppression. The essays in New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism highlight the intersections of these oppressions through the works of different authors including Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Hogan and Flora Nwapa, and demonstrate the expansion of ecofeminist literary criticism to a more global scale as well as important connections with the field of environmental justice. This collection offers fresh insight and expands the important discussion surrounding the field of ecofeminism and literature.

Author : Amrita Paresh Patel,Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8176252638

Get Book

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's Poetry, Plays, and Criticism by Amrita Paresh Patel,Jaydipsinh Dodiya Pdf

This Book, It Is Hoped, Will Create In The Readers Not Only An Interest In Sri Aurobindo`S Literary Work, But Also An Awareness About His Message Of Integralism And Its Continued Relevance For All Times.