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Author: Meyer Howard Abrams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780393307474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One of the most respected literary scholars alive, . . . Abrams stands for understanding and conciliation, calling for a kind of humanism that can embrace the good in all literary theories." --Washington Post
Author: Clement Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0226306216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse—has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate editor of Commentary from 1945 until 1957. His seminal essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" set the terms for the ongoing debate about the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. Though many of his ideas have been challenged, Greenberg has influenced generations of critics, historians, and artists, and he remains influential to this day.
Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVerzameling eerder gepubliceerde analyses van het werk van de Zweedse cineast (geb. 1918), zowel door filmdeskundigen als door critici met een andere benadering
Author: Northrop Frye
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Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780141187099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Updike
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-12-04
Total Pages: 1025
ISBN-13: 0679645853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.
Author: Alexander Pope
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Published: 1711
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780810105898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).
Author: Alexander Pope
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Published: 1711
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clement Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0226306224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse—has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate editor of Commentary from 1945 until 1957. His seminal essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" set the terms for the ongoing debate about the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. Though many of his ideas have been challenged, Greenberg has influenced generations of critics, historians, and artists, and he remains influential to this day.
Author: James Wolcott
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0767930630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.
