Criticism & Society

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136494456
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Criticism & Society by : Imre Salusinszky

Download or read book Criticism & Society written by Imre Salusinszky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Edward Said

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843901
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (439 download)

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Book Synopsis Edward Said by : Abdirahman A. Hussein

Download or read book Edward Said written by Abdirahman A. Hussein and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, published on the first anniversary of Said's death.

Interpretation and Social Criticism

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674459717
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Book Synopsis Interpretation and Social Criticism by : Michael Walzer

Download or read book Interpretation and Social Criticism written by Michael Walzer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Criticism and Social Change

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622595X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis Criticism and Social Change by : Frank Lentricchia

Download or read book Criticism and Social Change written by Frank Lentricchia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Criticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals."—Frederic Jameson "A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticism—this last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and grace; it is shot through with learning, intimate knowledge of the critical tradition, and a deep (though by no means uncritical) understanding of the work (as well as social significance) of Kenneth Burke."—Hayden White

Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826207265
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions by : Robert Shulman

Download or read book Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions written by Robert Shulman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing market society of the nineteenth century had a deep impact on American writers and their works. The writers responded with important insights into the alienation brought on by the country's capitalist development. Shulman uses theorists from Tocqueville to Gramsci and the New Left historians, as well as drawing on other recent historical and critical studies, to examine major nineteenth-century American works as they illuminate and are illuminated by their society. Using works by Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Chesnutt, Walt Witman, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser, he shows the urgency, energy, and variety of response that capitalism elicited from a range of writers.

Criticism of Society in the English Novel Between the Wars

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Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782251661902
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Book Synopsis Criticism of Society in the English Novel Between the Wars by : Hena Maes-Jelinek

Download or read book Criticism of Society in the English Novel Between the Wars written by Hena Maes-Jelinek and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main concern of this study is the artist’s vision of society; its major theme is the relation between the individual and society resulting from the impact of social and political upheavals on individual life. By criticism of society I mean the novelist’s awareness of the social reality and of the individual’s response to it; the writers I deal with all proved alive to the changes that were taking place in English society between the two World Wars. Though the social attitudes of the inter-war years as well as the writers’ response to them were shaped by lasting and complex influences, such as trends in philosophy and science, the two Wars stand out as determining factors in the development of the novel: the consequences of the First were explored by most writers in the Twenties, whereas in the following decade the novelists felt compelled to voice the anxiety aroused by the threat of another conflict and to warn against its possible effects. After the First World War many writers felt keenly the social disruption: the old standards, which were thought to have made this suicidal War possible, were distrusted; the code of behaviour and the moral values of the older generation were openly criticized for having led to bankruptcy. Disparagement of authority increased the individual’s sense of isolation, his insecurity, his disgust or fear. Even the search for pleasure so widely satirized in the Twenties was the expression of a cynicism born of despair. The ensuing disengagement of the individual from his environment became a major theme in the novel: his isolation was at once a cause for resentment and the source of his fierce individualism.

Critics, Ratings, and Society

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742547032
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Critics, Ratings, and Society by : Grant Blank

Download or read book Critics, Ratings, and Society written by Grant Blank and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics, Ratings, and Society is the first comprehensive study of the review as social institution. Its theories and data encompass reviews of all types of products--including the arts (e.g. theater, books, and music) and consumer products (e.g. cars, software, and appliances). According to Blank, the core problem of reviews is credibility. Concerns about credibility organize the formulation of reviews and audiences. The connoisseurial-procedural distinction describes the production of credibility and its assessment under different types of rating systems.

Marxism and Literary Criticism

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415285841
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (858 download)

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Book Synopsis Marxism and Literary Criticism by : Terry Eagleton

Download or read book Marxism and Literary Criticism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Burnout Society

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804797501
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Burnout Society by : Byung-Chul Han

Download or read book The Burnout Society written by Byung-Chul Han and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.

The Social Life of Criticism

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130072
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Life of Criticism by : Kimberly J Stern

Download or read book The Social Life of Criticism written by Kimberly J Stern and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that gender politics were influential in the early development of literary criticism and the writings of female critics

Reviewing Political Criticism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317063708
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Reviewing Political Criticism by : Elisabeth K. Chaves

Download or read book Reviewing Political Criticism written by Elisabeth K. Chaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the ’review’ form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The review belongs to a long tradition of written political criticism that first advised, then revised, and with the increased confidence afforded to civil society by the rise of market capitalism, subsequently challenged and even transformed the state’s view on what and how it governed. Chaves investigates the crucial nexus of intellectual debate with political judgment over this time, and highlights the review’s central role in upholding this connection. Focusing upon critical moments that required the exercise of political judgment, the book explains this journal form as a means of political practice, one that essentially ’re-views’ the state’s view of how society should be ordered. To understand critical activity, one must reflect on where this activity takes place-on the institutions of criticism that sustain it. Referred to by some as the ’natural habitat’ of intellectuals, journals, as the institutionalized sites of theoretical discourse, are often overlooked. This groundbreaking book offers a concentrated critique of the review form of journal publication as a medium for political thought and action, as a decisive site for political judgment by the state’s conservers and critics.

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570743
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Film Criticism in the Digital Age by : Mattias Frey

Download or read book Film Criticism in the Digital Age written by Mattias Frey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and purpose of film criticism in the twenty-first century. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book’s contributors find many signs of the film critic’s declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics—whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers—have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture. In addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives, Film Criticism in the Digital Age includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James. Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation, promotion, and explanation of artistic works.

Criticism and Public Rationality

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131783111X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Criticism and Public Rationality by : Harry W. Smart

Download or read book Criticism and Public Rationality written by Harry W. Smart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticism is at the heart of any political discussion, and criticism of old policies is central to the development of new ones. In its analysis of political decision-making, this reissue, first published in 1991, examines the principles which control the process of policy criticism. It identifies two fundamental and related obstacles to this process: the privileged status accorded to 'professional judgement' and the conflicting philosophical ideas that shape political argument. Based on the study of Europe's largest local authority, the book presents a theory of decision-making that can be applied to institutions at all levels.

Conspicuous Criticism

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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis Conspicuous Criticism by : Christopher Shannon

Download or read book Conspicuous Criticism written by Christopher Shannon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996 and newly revised, Conspicuous Criticism is a ringing defense of the need for religion and tradition in contemporary society. Writing with moral passion and critical verve, Christopher Shannon offers a convincing indictment of the forces that isolate the individual in modern capitalist society and counters more than a century of efforts by modern intellectuals­ to displace tradition in favor of a humanism that actually diminishes humanity in the name of freeing its potential. Featuring in-depth analyses of the works of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, C. Wright Mills, and others, Conspicuous Criticism is a call to reinstate traditional relations to God, nature, and the common good. Scholars in fields from American studies to intellectual history will be forced to grapple with Shannon's trenchant critique, which is well on its way to becoming a classic of Christian thought. "Conspicuous Criticism inspired a concern about the modern world that in the years since I've not been able to brush aside."--Eric Miller, First Things

Criticism in Society

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136494529
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Criticism in Society by : Imre Salusinszky

Download or read book Criticism in Society written by Imre Salusinszky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. Literary criticism, if it is a discipline, is surely that discipline which has been most exclusively concerned with the question of its own function. The main subject within criticism seems always to have been “The Function of Criticism”. Featuring nine authors, the early history of these essays is the attempt to separate criticism off from the art that it deals with, generally with unhappy consequences for criticism.

Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567497852
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition by : Roland Boer

Download or read book Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition written by Roland Boer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukács, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts. In this second edition, Boer has added chapters on Deleuze and Guattari, and Negri. Each chapter has been carefully revised to make the book more useful on courses, while maintaining challenges and insights for postgraduate students and scholars. Theoretical material has been updated and sharpened in light of subsequent research and a revised conclusion considers the economies of the ancient world in relation to biblical societies.

The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521223245
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis written by R. P. Bilan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-10-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis and assessment of the many strands of Leavis's work, emphasising the basic unity of his ideas.