Criticism

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative, sometimes intelligible, (or articulate) way.

New Releases Tagged "Criticism"

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Cinema Speculation
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
On Morrison
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
Speaking in Tongues
Authority: Essays
Reading Genesis
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A Room of One’s Own
Orientalism
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
How Fiction Works
Poetics
Aspects of the Novel
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. ...more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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