James Chandler - Doing Criticism
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Doing Criticism: краткое содержание, описание и аннотация
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the literary arts, the dramatic arts, and the narrative screen arts, but also a book that makes a case for how and why criticism matters today
Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts Divided into two parts, the book first presents an up-to-date account of the state of criticism in both Anglo-American and Continental contexts—describing both the longstanding mission and the changing functions of criticism over the centuries and discussing critical issues that bridge the literary and screen arts in the contemporary world. The second part of the book features a variety of case studies of criticism across media, including works by canonical authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and W. B. Yeats; films such as Coppola’s
andHitchcock’s
screen adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and
Ishiguro’s
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and a concluding chapter on several of Spike Lee’s film “joints” that brings several of the book’s central concepts to bear on work of a single film Helping students of literature and cinema write well about what they find in their reading and viewing,
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Discusses how the bridging of the literary arts and screen arts can help criticism flourish in the present day Illustrates how the doing of criticism is in practice a particular kind of writing Considers how to generalize the consequences of criticism beyond personal growth and gratification Addresses the ways the practice of criticism matters to the practice of the critical object Suggests that doing without criticism is not only unwise, but also perhaps impossible Features case studies organized under the rubrics of conversation, adaptation, genre, authorship and seriality Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts