The Complete Works: Criticisms
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Michael Kackman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134749236
With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses emergent technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and digital humanities. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author's own research. Together, the chapters in this collection give media critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780674459717
In succinct and engaging fashion Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as social practice.
Author : Randall Jarrell
Publisher :
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9780374508920
Author : Julio Trebolle Barrera
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004426019
This volume contains a collection of Julio Trebolle’s papers on textual and compositional history of 1-2 Kings, via Septuagint, Old Latin. His research is a key contribution to the landscape of textual plurality in the history of the Bible.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803957343
Arthur Asa Berger's unique ability to translate difficult theories into accessible language makes this book an ideal introduction to cultural criticism. Berger covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories to semiotics and Marxism. Cultural Criticism breathes new life into the discipline by making these theories relevant to students' lives. The author illustrates his explanations with excerpts from classic works giving readers a sense of the important thinkers' styles and helping place them in their context. Berger also provides a comprehensive bibliography on cultural criticism for those who wish to explore the topics at greater length. Cultural Criticism is the perfect undergraduate supplemental text for such courses as media studies, literary criticism, and popular culture.
Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1681374099
“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 : Jean Norton Cru
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
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Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134221304
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.