Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts

ISBN-13: 9781405177795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str.

James Chandler

Spis treści

Preface ixAcknowledgments xiiiPart I Critical Issues 1Chapter 1 Doing Criticism/Doing without Criticism 31 Functions of Criticism 32 Two Thought Experiments 73 Limits of the Lyric Paradigm 124 Criticism in the Convenience Store 215 Criticism between Page and Screen 26Chapter 2 Makings of the Critical Essay 361 Objects, Occasions, Frames of Reference 362 Criticism and the Essay Form 413 Critical Questions I 494 Critical Questions II 615 Critical Judgments 68Part II Criticism in Practice 83Chapter 3 Conversations 851 Beyond the Poem Itself 852 Coppola Sounds Out Hitchcock 973 Austen, Edgeworth, and the Moral Economy of the Novel 111Chapter 4 Adaptations 1271 Two-Way Street 1272 Point of View in Fiction and Cinema: The Remains of the Day 1373 Frankenstein and Its Adapted Progeny 154Chapter 5 Genres 1701 Laws of Genre 1702 Satire across Media: Character and Impersonation 1783 Melodrama across Media: Character and Personalization 198Chapter 6 Conclusion: Authorship and Seriality-- Spike Lee's Joints 2171 Authorship, Seriality, and the Case of Spike Lee 2172 Some Spike Lee Joints: Conversations and Adaptations 2273 Crossing Genres in Bamboozled 251Index 269

O autorze

James Chandler is William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago, USA. He has written widely about Romanticism, British and Irish literature since the early Enlightenment, American cinema, and the relationship of literary criticism to film criticism. He is the author of several books including England in 1819 and An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema.