{"product_id":"doing-criticism-isbn-9781405177795","title":"Doing Criticism","description":"\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 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e and Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eVertigo;\u003c\/i\u003e screen adaptations of Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e and Ishiguro's \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e; 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 \u003ci\u003eauteur.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelping students of literature and cinema write well about what they find in their reading and viewing, \u003ci\u003eDoing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses how the bridging of the literary arts and screen arts can help criticism flourish in the present day\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates how the doing of criticism is in practice a particular kind of writing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders how to generalize the consequences of criticism beyond personal growth and gratification\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the ways the practice of criticism matters to the practice of the critical object\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSuggests that doing without criticism is not only unwise, but also perhaps impossible\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures case studies organized under the rubrics of conversation, adaptation, genre, authorship and seriality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts \u003c\/i\u003eis an ideal text for students in introductory courses in criticism, literary studies, and film studies, as well as general readers with interest in the subject.\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e is William K. 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