These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of ...
Not unless a statement is about an "object" and can be judged in its truthfulness does it enter into a discourse; ... be judged "true" or "false" within the knowledge/power system that produces "truth" and its criteria within a culture.
This book is an invaluable introduction covering a wide range of subjects for anyone who is studying or has an interest in critical theory (past and present).
These essays adopt the approach that has won this book's predecessors such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a critical term, explores the issues raised by the term, and puts the term to use in an analysis of a ...
"The critical vocabulary of the mainstream often give short shrift to the fantastic, and scholars of the fantastic have often had to look elsewhere for their critical termionology. Such scholars...
Art history as a field has kept pace with debates over globalization and other social and political issues in recent years, making a second edition of this book not just timely, but crucial.
This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, ...
A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowlerâ¬"s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms , this latest edition of the Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to ...
Bringing together the work of a group of internationally distinguished scholars, the contribution in Critical Terms for Animal Studies offers distinct voices and diverse perspectives, exploring significant concepts and asking important ...
What Amy Lowell means by cadence is a retrospectively perceived rhythmic totality, an overall balance rather than the continuously ... Twentieth Century Literature in Retrospect (1971); Chris Beyers, A History ofFree Verse (2001).