"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.

The Book Is The Most Authentic One Ever Written On The Subject. Apart From Its Wide-Ranging And Usually Inaccessible Materials, It Has Been Written In Such A Lively And Fluent Style That It Ravishes Both The Uninitiated And The Expert, The Common Reader And The Scholar. Besides, Having Functional Utility For Examinations, Interviews And Competitions, And Elite Occasions, It Is A Source Of Critical Strength And Ideas For Any Reader Of Taste And Interest Irrespective Of His Particular Language, Literature And Department. Mohammad Hanif Has Made A Diligent Collection Of Material From And About T.S. Eliot S Critical Writings And Has Arranged It Straightforwardly In Eight Chapters, On The Sources Of Eliot S Ideas, On His Views About Poetry, Criticism, Drama And The Novel And His Style Is Lively, Clear And Forceful On The Whole ----.----- He Roused By Attention By Some First-Hand Observation On A Point Of Detail (For Instance, Eliot And Benda, On Eliot S Possible Debt To Pater And On Eliot S Humour). The Inclusion Of Chapter 6 On Eliot S Criticism Of The Nover Is Welcome And Mr. Hanif Does Show That Eliot Ranged Widely In This Department Of Literature ------------.

Literary criticism produced by Indian scholars from the earliest times to the present age is represented in this book. These include Bharatamuni, Tholkappiyar, Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, Jnaneshwara, Amir Khusrau, Mirza Ghalib, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, B.S. Mardhekar, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and A.K. Ramanujam and Sudhir Kakar among others. Their statements have been translated into English by specialists from Sanskrit, Persian and other languages.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 2 of 4 explores the subject of drama criticism. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.

Cohen introduces classical theories of rhetoric at the beginning of each chapter, then expands the discussion with contemporary postmodern theories, touching on concerns with aesthetics and cultural bias as well. Question and answer sections in each chapter and many specific, down-to-earth examples will attract and encourage students to harness the power of communication that shapes who we are, what we know, and what we do. A highly practical resource, Communication Criticism is the ideal for courses in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and film studies.

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials * a bibliography of secondary sources Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.