Aesthetics And The Theory Of Criticism

Author : Arnold Isenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226385124
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism written by Arnold Isenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-03-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These sixteen essays by Arnold Isenberg "bring wide-ranging connoiseurship, intricate analysis, and epigrammatic literacy to bear on a number of glib and fuzzy oppositions between form and content, description and interpretation, perception and meaning, technique and substance, and belief and expression, articulating provocative strategies for illuminating the canon of the arts and the organ of criticism. . . . Any thoughtful lover of the arts could read this book with profit and inspiration."—Choice

Author : Paolo Euron
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004409238
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work written by Paolo Euron and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development in Western culture.

Author : Monroe C. Beardsley
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780915145089
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics, Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism written by Monroe C. Beardsley and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.

Author : Trevor Pateman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317232569
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts written by Trevor Pateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. The arts can only thrive in a culture where there is conversation about them. This is particularly true of the arts in an education context. Yet often the discussion is poor because we do not have the necessary concepts for the elaboration of our aesthetic responses, or sufficient familiarity with the contending schools of interpretation. The aim of Key Concepts is to engender a broad and informed conversation about the arts. By means of over sixty alphabetically ordered essays, the author offers a map of aesthetics, critical theory and the arts in education. The essays are both informative and argumentative, with cross-references, a supporting bibliography and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134221304
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Criticism written by Noel Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or to uncover hidden meanings or agendas, but instead to determine what is of value in art. Carroll argues for a humanistic conception of criticism which focuses on what the artist has achieved by creating or performing the work. Whilst a good critic should not neglect to contextualize and offer interpretations of a work of art, he argues that too much recent criticism has ignored the fundamental role of the artist's intentions. Including examples from visual, performance and literary arts, and the work of contemporary critics, Carroll provides a charming, erudite and persuasive argument that evaluation of art is an indispensable part of the conversation of life.

Author : Michael Patrick Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813033464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Chaos written by Michael Patrick Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An invigorating (and convincing) challenge to the cornerstone assumptions of virtually all contemporary literary criticism . . . this study lays the groundwork for a dynamic new approach to reading literature. Sure to be controversial, its fundamental right-headedness should help to open debate on the nature of literary criticism across numerous disciplines."--William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University Michael Patrick Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature. His central argument revolves around the notion that the most useful literary criticism is that which comes closest to the process of reading. He argues that since our reading is not circumscribed by Cartesian cause-and-effect principles, our literary criticism should not be bound by linear thinking. Using examples that range from the Book of Job to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Gillespie demonstrates how nonlinear perception vastly enhances one's ability to understand diverse forms of literature. Invoking theories from Einstein's views on relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos theories, Gillespie applies his approach to different types of literary works, including a children's fantasy: the Bible, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Finnegans Wake. In each case, he compares a nonlinear model of criticism with the interpretation of established critical schools, focusing especially on elucidating both the weaknesses in those schools and the multiple legitimate textual meanings in these works. Providing clear, useful theoretical grounding in the basics of the new sciences, Gillespie draws from the fundamental thinking behind these new conceptions of material existence to articulate a paradigm of literary criticism that should be of value to all literary scholars. ?Michael Patrick Gillespie is Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English at Marquette University and author of several works, including Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity (UPF, 1996) and Joyce through the Ages (UPF, 1999).

Author : Calvin Seerveld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benedetto Croce's Earlier Aesthetic Theories and Literary Criticism written by Calvin Seerveld and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Monroe C. Beardsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics written by Monroe C. Beardsley and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190268848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why is that Art? written by Terry Barrett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is that art? Why is it in an art museum? Who says it's art? Why is it good? Why Is That Art?, Third Edition, introduces students to theories of art through the presentation of contemporary works that include abstract and representational painting, animated film, monumental sculpture, performance art, photographs, relational art, and video installations. Ideal for courses in aesthetics, art theory, art criticism, and the philosophy of art, this unique book provides students with a newfound appreciation for contemporary art, scholarship, and reasoned argumentation.

Author : David Simpson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521359023
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel written by David Simpson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-10-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional resource, this 1988 book provides a comprehensive anthology in English of the major texts of German literary and aesthetic theory between Lessing and Hegel. The texts are crucial to an understanding not only of the Romantic period itself, but also of the foundational arguments of literary theory.