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Free Download Emil Cioran: The Criticism of the Idea of Historical Progress by Daniel Branco
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0648499626 | 142 Pages | EPUB | 249.3 KB
Emil Cioran is known for both the complexity of his views on philosophy and his exquisite literary style.

Free Download Brett McInelly, "Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism "
English | ISBN: 1032456868 | 2023 | 226 pages | EPUB | 1016 KB
This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a ‘public square’ was taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press. Perhaps more so than any previous religious movement, Methodism, and the publications associated with it, received greater scrutiny largely because of periodical literature and the emergence of popular review criticism. The book considers in particular how works addressing Methodism were discussed and critiqued in the era’s two leading literary periodicals – The Monthly Review and The Critical Review. Focusing on the period between 1749 and 1789, the study encompasses the formative years of popular review criticism and some of the more dramatic moments in the textual culture of early Methodism. The author illustrates some of the specific ways these review journals diverged in their critical approaches and sensibilities as well as their politics and religious opinions. The

Free Download Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism by bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains
English | September 13, 2017 | ISBN: 113872307X, 1138723088 | True EPUB | 158 pages | 2 MB
In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication.

Free Download Professor Michel Chaouli, "Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins"
English | ISBN: 022683042X | 2024 | 192 pages | PDF, EPUB | 5 + 0,4 MB
An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.

Free Download Ronald L. Grimes, "Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1453758240 | EPUB | pages: 266 | 0.5 mb
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a topic seldom written about: the evaluation of rites. Enacting ritual and thinking critically are often imagined as mutually exclusive activities, but Ritual Criticism demonstrates their complementarity by presenting case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another. The cases are drawn from contemporary, urban, North American social contexts in which specific rites are undergoing evaluation, interpretation, or revision. The cases eventuate in essays, more theoretical treatments of critical issues in ritual studies. The rituals studied are as varied as the strategies utilized. The diversity of approaches illustrates the ways criticism shifts as types of ritual vary. One rite is a traditional liturgy; another is invented rather than traditional; a third is a hybrid ritual drama; and in a fourth instance the ritualization is so tacit that some would deny that it is ritual at all. Many of the contexts that provide data for the chapters are typified by syncretism, the eclectic mixing and matching of ritual elements from diverse traditions. Other examples involve attempts to engage in ritual invention and experimentation. The essays are likewise diverse, taking readers into territories traditionally the purview of several disciplines. Drama, literature, education, psychology, medicine, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology are traversed in this effort to understand ritual, an unusually complex genre of human activity.

Free Download Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University"
English | ISBN: 0226818586 | 2022 | 243 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism.

Free Download Julian (EDT) Wolfreys Julian Wolfreys, "Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 074869529X | 2015 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Provides a wide-ranging guide to current directions in literary criticism. This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of ‘hybrid’ criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century. The chapters provide thought-provoking overviews of critical thinking at the cutting edge. Each of the authors explains in lucid terms the various contours of their discourses while bringing these into sharp relief for the student reader through readings of canonical novels, poems, plays, films and websites. The book is organised into five areas of critical concern – The Poetics and Politics of Identity; Critical Voices: Ethical Questions; Materialities, Immaterialities, (A)materialities, Realities; Space, Place and Memory. These orientations reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of critical and cultural studies, as do the themes covered within the volume: Diaspora Criticism, Gender and Transgender Criticism, Women of Color and Feminist Criticism, Chaos Theory, Complexity Theory and Criticism, Ethical Criticism, Trauma and Testimonial Criticism, Ecocriticism, Spatial Criticism, Cybercriticism, Deleuzean Criticism, Levinas and Criticism, Spectral Criticism and (A)material Criticism.

Free Download Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTCBX5CX | 2023 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Roxane Gay
Narrator: Roxane Gay
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy-alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s "Work Friend" columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and sharp insights. Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics-politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more-with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay’s devotees and draw new audiences to this inimitable talent.

Free Download Francis Mulhern, "Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism"
English | 2013 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 0582059763, 0582059771 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent Marxist literary criticism in one single volume.

Free Download Lisa Jervis, Margaret Cho, "BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine"
English | 2006 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 0374113432 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women’s lives, Bitch grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched worldwide. Today it stands as a touchstone of hip, young feminist thought, looking with both wit and irreverence at the way pop culture informs feminism―and vice versa―and encouraging readers to think critically about the messages lurking behind our favorite television shows, movies, music, books, blogs, and the like. BITCHFest offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from the magazine’s first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for the collection. Smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous, and clear-eyed, the anthology covers everything from a 1996 celebration of pre-scandal Martha Stewart to a more recent critical look at the "gayby boom"; from a time line of black women on sitcoms to an analysis of fat suits as the new blackface; from an attempt to fashion a feminist vulgarity to a reclamation of female virginity. It’s a recent history of feminist pop-culture critique and an arrow toward feminism’s future.