{"product_id":"doing-criticism-9781405177795","title":"Doing Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot only an accessible hands-on guide to writing criticism across 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts\u003c\/i\u003e is a practical guide to engaging actively and productively with a critical object, whether a film, a novel, or a play. Going beyond the study of lyric poetry and literature to include motion picture and dramatic arts, this unique text provides specific advice on how to best write criticism while offering concrete illustrations of what it looks like on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivided into two parts, the book first presents an up-to-date account of the state of criticism in both Anglo-American and Continental contextsdescribing 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 s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Critical Issues 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 Doing Criticism\/Doing without Criticism 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Functions of Criticism 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Two Thought Experiments 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Limits of the Lyric Paradigm 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Criticism in the Convenience Store 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Criticism between Page and Screen 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 Makings of the Critical Essay 36\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Objects, Occasions, Frames of Reference 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Criticism and the Essay Form 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Critical Questions I 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Critical Questions II 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Critical Judgments 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Criticism in Practice 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Conversations 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Beyond the Poem Itself 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Coppola Sounds Out Hitchcock 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Austen, Edgeworth, and the Moral Economy of the Novel 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 Adaptations 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Two-Way Street 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Point of View in Fiction and Cinema: The Remains of the Day 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Frankenstein and Its Adapted Progeny 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Genres 170\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Laws of Genre 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Satire across Media: Character and Impersonation 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Melodrama across Media: Character and Personalization 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Conclusion: Authorship and Seriality— Spike Lee's Joints 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Authorship, Seriality, and the Case of Spike Lee 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Some Spike Lee Joints: Conversations and Adaptations 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Crossing Genres in Bamboozled 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 269\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407908249943,"sku":"9781405177795","price":47.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405177795.jpg?v=1730500922","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/doing-criticism-9781405177795","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}