Tag: Criticism

Free Download Practising Feminist Criticism: An Introduction By Maggie Humm
1995 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 013355371X | PDF | 43 MB
A companion volume to the book A Reader’s Guide to Feminist Criticism (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994), This book offers practical readings of literary and cultural texts, and showing how literary theory and feminist criticism an be applied to the main developments and debates within each approach.Comprehensive and systematic coverage of the main schools of thought. International coverage; including Third World feminist criticism and Black Feminism. Students of Literature, Literary studies, Women and Literature, Women’s Studies.

Free Download Peter McNeil, Sanda Miller, "Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice"
English | 2014 | pages: 169 | ISBN: 0857854461, 085785447X | PDF | 1,3 mb
Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves.

Free Download Elio Attilio Baldi, "The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom "
English | ISBN: 1683931912 | 2020 | 306 pages | EPUB | 567 KB
The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as gender and background), and translation and the language in which the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino. The Author in Criticism also analyzes Calvino’s various professional roles as writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent, and public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex critical analyses. This volume purposefully foregrounds the textual and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks, interviews, etc. In this way, this book provides insight into the reception of Calvino’s works in different countries. Moreover, it forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.

Free Download Vladimir Ilich Lenin, N Lenin, "Materialism And Empirio Criticism: Collected Works Of V. I. Lenin V13"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 125803333X, 1258140187 | EPUB | pages: 392 | 0.5 mb
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism is a book written by Vladimir Lenin, a prominent Marxist theorist and revolutionary leader of the Soviet Union. This book is the thirteenth volume in the Collected Works of V. I. Lenin and was first published in 1909. In this book, Lenin critiques the philosophical theories of empirio-criticism and positivism, which were popular in Europe at the time. He argues that these theories are a form of idealism and do not accurately reflect the material world. Lenin advocates for a materialist approach to understanding the world, which emphasizes the role of objective reality and the laws of nature.Lenin also discusses the relationship between materialism and dialectics, arguing that they are complementary and necessary for understanding the world. He explores the role of consciousness in the material world, arguing that it is a product of material reality rather than the other way around.Overall, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism is a significant work in Marxist philosophy and provides valuable insights into Lenin’s views on materialism, dialectics, and the relationship between consciousness and the material world.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Free Download Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1503630196 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.49 Mb
An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions about critics and the power they do or don’t wield. Re-examining theorists from Matthew Arnold to Walter Benjamin, to Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers, Criticism and Politics explores the animating contradictions that have long propelled literary studies: between pronouncing judgment and engaging in philosophical critique, between democracy and expertise, between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy. Both a leftist critic and a critic of the left, Robbins unflinchingly defends criticism from those who might wish to de-politicize it, arguing that working for change is not optional for critics, but rather a core part of their job description.

Free Download Sabata-mpho Mokae, "Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi: History, criticism, celebration"
English | ISBN: 1847012760 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 31 MB
International scholars explore one of the most important postcolonial novels of African literature.

Free Download Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism by Ian Bogost
English | 2006 | ISBN: 026202599X | 243 Pages | PDF | 1.9 MB
In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames.

Free Download Emil Cioran: The Criticism of the Idea of Historical Progress by Daniel Branco
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0648499626 | 142 Pages | EPUB | 249.3 KB
Emil Cioran is known for both the complexity of his views on philosophy and his exquisite literary style.

Free Download Brett McInelly, "Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism "
English | ISBN: 1032456868 | 2023 | 226 pages | EPUB | 1016 KB
This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a ‘public square’ was taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press. Perhaps more so than any previous religious movement, Methodism, and the publications associated with it, received greater scrutiny largely because of periodical literature and the emergence of popular review criticism. The book considers in particular how works addressing Methodism were discussed and critiqued in the era’s two leading literary periodicals – The Monthly Review and The Critical Review. Focusing on the period between 1749 and 1789, the study encompasses the formative years of popular review criticism and some of the more dramatic moments in the textual culture of early Methodism. The author illustrates some of the specific ways these review journals diverged in their critical approaches and sensibilities as well as their politics and religious opinions. The

Free Download Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism by bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains
English | September 13, 2017 | ISBN: 113872307X, 1138723088 | True EPUB | 158 pages | 2 MB
In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication.