Phê bình

Những bộ óc vĩ đại trong suốt lịch sử đã hướng ánh nhìn phân tích của họ đến nghệ thuật, văn học, âm nhạc và văn hóa, chiếu sáng những ý nghĩa ẩn giấu và khơi dậy những cuộc tranh luận sôi nổi về cách các tác phẩm sáng tạo hình thành thế giới của chúng ta. Những khám phá sâu sắc này trải dài từ việc đào sâu vào thiên tài của Shakespeare đến những góc nhìn mới về âm nhạc đương đại, mang đến cho độc giả những cách hiểu và trân trọng mới về các hình thức nghệ thuật đã chạm đến cảm xúc của chúng ta.

Phê bình Tóm tắt sách

The Art of Fiction

của John Gardner • 1984

Master the craft that makes readers forget the page and live inside your story.

3.99

6.000+

🖊️ Fiction Craft ✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Technique

The Art of Fiction

Master the craft that makes readers forget the page and live inside your story.

của John Gardner 1984 240 trang

3.99

6.000+ đánh giá

🖊️ Fiction Craft ✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Technique

How Fiction Works

của James Wood • 2008

How do novels create the illusion of a thinking mind? A master critic explains the techniques.

3.99

8.000+

📚 Literary Criticism 🔍 Narrative Technique 👁️ Point Of View

How Fiction Works

How do novels create the illusion of a thinking mind? A master critic explains the techniques.

của James Wood 2008 265 trang

3.99

8.000+ đánh giá

📚 Literary Criticism 🔍 Narrative Technique 👁️ Point Of View

Nghệ thuật viết phi hư cấu

của Ayn Rand • 2001

Skip the mystique: nonfiction writing is a system, and the outline is its non-negotiable start.

3.98

500+

📖 Philosophical Writing 💡 Clarity And Precision 🗂️ Pre-Writing And Outlining

Nghệ thuật viết phi hư cấu

Skip the mystique: nonfiction writing is a system, and the outline is its non-negotiable start.

của Ayn Rand 2001 210 trang

3.98

500+ đánh giá

📖 Philosophical Writing 💡 Clarity And Precision 🗂️ Pre-Writing And Outlining

Hitchcock/Truffaut

của François Truffaut • 1985

A bomb under the table, a document nobody cares about: Hitchcock decodes suspense for Truffaut.

4.47

9.000+

🧱 Film Craft 🎬 Auteur Theory ⏳ Suspense Mechanics

Hitchcock/Truffaut

A bomb under the table, a document nobody cares about: Hitchcock decodes suspense for Truffaut.

của François Truffaut 1985 368 trang

4.47

9.000+ đánh giá

🧱 Film Craft 🎬 Auteur Theory ⏳ Suspense Mechanics

Imaginary Homelands

của Salman Rushdie • 1991

After empire, the migrant's double vision and a stolen tongue remake what home and freedom mean.

3.99

1.000+

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🗳️ Indian Politics 🧳 Migrant Perspectives

Imaginary Homelands

After empire, the migrant's double vision and a stolen tongue remake what home and freedom mean.

của Salman Rushdie 1991 448 trang

3.99

1.000+ đánh giá

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🗳️ Indian Politics 🧳 Migrant Perspectives

Shakespeare

của Harold Bloom • 1998

Macbeth as a map of the mind: how ambition, guilt, and deception destroy from within.

4.03

3.000+

🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 🏛️ Early Modern Theatre 📜 Drama Criticism

Shakespeare

Macbeth as a map of the mind: how ambition, guilt, and deception destroy from within.

của Harold Bloom 1998 745 trang

4.03

3.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 🏛️ Early Modern Theatre 📜 Drama Criticism

Archaeologies of the Future

của Fredric Jameson • 2005

Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.

4.04

500+

📚 Literary Criticism 🧠 Critical Theory ☭ Western Marxism

Archaeologies of the Future

Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.

của Fredric Jameson 2005 448 trang

4.04

500+ đánh giá

📚 Literary Criticism 🧠 Critical Theory ☭ Western Marxism

Main Currents Of Marxism

của Leszek Kołakowski • 2005

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

4.25

455

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology

Main Currents Of Marxism

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

của Leszek Kołakowski 2005 1284 trang

4.25

455 đánh giá

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology

Preface to Shakespeare

của Samuel Johnson • 1778

Why Shakespeare's greatness survives his flaws: Samuel Johnson's landmark verdict from 1778.

3.62

376

🎭 Shakespeare Criticism 🏛️ Neoclassical Criticism ⚖️ Taste And Judgment

Preface to Shakespeare

Why Shakespeare's greatness survives his flaws: Samuel Johnson's landmark verdict from 1778.

của Samuel Johnson 1778 68 trang

3.62

376 đánh giá

🎭 Shakespeare Criticism 🏛️ Neoclassical Criticism ⚖️ Taste And Judgment

Every Song Ever

của Ben Ratliff • 2016

Genre is a filing system, not a listening guide. Twenty perceptual filters for the streaming age.

3.29

500+

🎵 Music Criticism 🎧 Music Appreciation 👂 Active Listening

Every Song Ever

Genre is a filing system, not a listening guide. Twenty perceptual filters for the streaming age.

của Ben Ratliff 2016 272 trang

3.29

500+ đánh giá

🎵 Music Criticism 🎧 Music Appreciation 👂 Active Listening

Shakespeare's Freedom

của Stephen Greenblatt • 2010

Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.

3.83

175

🎭 Shakespearean Criticism 📜 Renaissance Studies 🏛️ New Historicism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.

của Stephen Greenblatt 2010 168 trang

3.83

175 đánh giá

🎭 Shakespearean Criticism 📜 Renaissance Studies 🏛️ New Historicism

How to Read and Why

của Harold Bloom • 2000

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

3.61

3.000+

📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading

How to Read and Why

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

của Harold Bloom 2000 288 trang

3.61

3.000+ đánh giá

📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading

The Anatomy of Influence

của Harold Bloom • 2011

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

3.93

477

📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon

The Anatomy of Influence

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

của Harold Bloom 2011 368 trang

3.93

477 đánh giá

📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon

Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro

của Vladimir Nabokov • 1981

Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.

4.26

2.000+

🇷🇺 Russian Literature 📖 Literary Criticism 🔍 Close Reading

Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro

Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.

của Vladimir Nabokov 1981 364 trang

4.26

2.000+ đánh giá

🇷🇺 Russian Literature 📖 Literary Criticism 🔍 Close Reading

The Shadow of a Great Rock

của Harold Bloom • 2011

The King James Bible as literature: irony, personality, a god more character than creator.

3.48

185

📖 Scripture As Literature 👑 King James Bible 🎨 Aesthetic Criticism

The Shadow of a Great Rock

The King James Bible as literature: irony, personality, a god more character than creator.

của Harold Bloom 2011 320 trang

3.48

185 đánh giá

📖 Scripture As Literature 👑 King James Bible 🎨 Aesthetic Criticism

More Baths, Less Talking

của Nick Hornby • 2012

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

3.88

1.000+

📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters

More Baths, Less Talking

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

của Nick Hornby 2012 135 trang

3.88

1.000+ đánh giá

📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters

The Language of the Night

của Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

4.28

2.000+

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense

The Language of the Night

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

của Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 304 trang

4.28

2.000+ đánh giá

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense

Dialogism

của Michael Holquist • 1990

All speech answers prior speech, all selves depend on others: the dialogic philosophy of Bakhtin.

4.09

📖 Literary Theory 💬 Philosophy Of Language 👥 Intersubjectivity

Dialogism

All speech answers prior speech, all selves depend on others: the dialogic philosophy of Bakhtin.

của Michael Holquist 1990 228 trang

4.09

88 đánh giá

📖 Literary Theory 💬 Philosophy Of Language 👥 Intersubjectivity

Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

của George Steiner • 1959

Tolstoy built heaven on earth; Dostoevsky argued freedom needs hell. Their clash defines the novel.

4.26

466

🌍 Comparative Literature 🇷🇺 Russian Literature Studies 📖 Philosophy And Literature

Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

Tolstoy built heaven on earth; Dostoevsky argued freedom needs hell. Their clash defines the novel.

của George Steiner 1959 386 trang

4.26

466 đánh giá

🌍 Comparative Literature 🇷🇺 Russian Literature Studies 📖 Philosophy And Literature

Le suicide français

của Éric Zemmour • 2014

France did not fall. It dismantled itself, one law at a time, over forty years.

3.51

294

🗳️ French Politics 📉 National Decline 🏛️ Cultural Decline

Le suicide français

France did not fall. It dismantled itself, one law at a time, over forty years.

của Éric Zemmour 2014 544 trang

3.51

294 đánh giá

🗳️ French Politics 📉 National Decline 🏛️ Cultural Decline

The Art of the Poetic Line

của James Longenbach • 2007

The 'line break' is a misnomer. A poet-critic reveals what actually happens where lines end.

4.03

500+

🛠️ Poetic Craft 🎵 Prosody 🔍 Close Reading

The Art of the Poetic Line

The 'line break' is a misnomer. A poet-critic reveals what actually happens where lines end.

của James Longenbach 2007 120 trang

4.03

500+ đánh giá

🛠️ Poetic Craft 🎵 Prosody 🔍 Close Reading

Borges on Writing

của Jorge Luis Borges • 1973

Plausibility trumps truth, short stories hinge on a situation, and great poems arrive unbidden.

4.07

1.000+

📝 Literary Craft 🎻 Poetry Craft 🌐 Translation Studies

Borges on Writing

Plausibility trumps truth, short stories hinge on a situation, and great poems arrive unbidden.

của Jorge Luis Borges 1973 173 trang

4.07

1.000+ đánh giá

📝 Literary Craft 🎻 Poetry Craft 🌐 Translation Studies

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