History Criticism Books

ISBN: 0313320071, 9780313320071
Authors: Yael Halevi-wise,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: study, world, literature, contributions, novel, fictions, scenes, storytelling, interactive
Pages: 216
Published: 2003-09-30
Category: Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction,
List Price: 86.95 USD

Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this tour of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations......
ISBN: 0393325091, 9780393325096
Authors: Peter Gay,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: bovary, buddenbrooks, madame, house, reprisals, bleak, savage
Pages: 192
Published: 2003-12
Category: Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction,
List Price: 13.95 USD
  • Rating: 40%


A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853......
ISBN: 067414046X, 9780674140462
Authors: Velimir Khlebnikov, paul Schmidt, ronald Vroon,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: prose, plays, supersagas, volume, khlebnikov, works, velimir, collected
Pages: 416
Published: 1989-11-11
Category: Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction,
List Price: 83.50 USD
  • Rating: 100%


Velimir Khlebnikov, who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six, is one of the great innovators of literary modernism. In Russia a powerful and growing mythology surrounds this Futurist poet and his reputation elsewhere continues to mount. Th......
ISBN: 0930261143, 9780930261146
Authors: Michael R. Collings,
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: literary, criticism, studies, starmont, stephen, king, facets
Pages: 200
Published: 2008-08-30
Category: European, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction,
List Price: 14.95 USD
  • Rating: 100%


A study of King's fiction, including a chapter on criticism and a chronology of King's works.......
ISBN: 0521826233, 9780521826235
Authors: Daniel M. Grimley, julian Rushton,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, music, companions, elgar, companion
Pages: 276
Published: 2005-01-31
Category: History & Criticism, Music, Entertainment,
List Price: 93.00 USD

Divided into three sections, this Companion explores Edward Elgar's early career, his major musical achievements, and the reception, performance and interpretation of his work. Placed in this wider perspective, Elgar emerges as a pivotal figure in th......
ISBN: 052285673X, 9780522856736
Authors: Sue Cramer, lesley Harding,
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Keywords: art, australian, amp, cubism
Pages: 288
Published: 2010-03-30
Category: History & Criticism, Arts & Photography,
List Price: 40.95 USD

Featuring more than 80 international and Australian artists, this examination of cubism shows the impact of this revolutionary and transformative movement on Australian painting from the early 20th century to the prese......
ISBN: 0554294060, 9780554294063
Authors: Richard Harding Davis,
Publisher: Bibliolife
Keywords: print, large, stories, gallegher
Pages: 140
Published: 2008-08-18
Category: Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction,
List Price: 28.99 USD

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ......
ISBN: 0802043623, 9780802043627
Authors: Eleanor Ty,
Publisher: University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Keywords: west, amelia, opie, jane, robinson, feminine, narratives, mary, empowering
Pages: 236
Published: 1998-12-26
Category: Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction,
List Price: 56.00 USD

Mary Robinson, a fantastic beauty and popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included am......
ISBN: 0631232842, 9780631232841
Authors: Gavin Butt,
Publisher: Wiley-blackwell
Keywords: new, art, history, interventions, performance, criticism, responses
Pages: 232
Published: 2004-08-09
Category: History & Criticism, Arts & Photography,
List Price: 47.95 USD

It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism......
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