This article advocates for scholarship-informed theatre practice, demonstrating how feminist criticism of The Taming the Shrew shaped and informed a production play staged on London Fringe in 2017. With reference to production’s editing, casting, staging choices, foregrounds scholarship supported process textual interpretation elucidation play’s taming plot performance. Highlighting opportunity...

This article offers a new critical text of cantiga d’escarnho by Roi Paez de Ribela along with an analysis problems presented the metrics, syntax, rhetoric and action poem.

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

This study explores the representation of space in O.A Bushnell’s Ka’awa which seemingly contradictory spatial scene urban, rural, picturesque and macabre delineates complexity postcolonial spaces. Ka’a’awa foregrounds journey Hiram Nihoa through his travel all around O’ahu 1850’s. Nihoa’s first-person account provides a vivid avenue for readers textual cues delineating spaces as they mentally ...

Sociolinguistic research suggests that women are more likely than men to use politeness strategies in their speech. Researchers have reported that women pay more compliments than men, that women in talk with same-sex peers use a large number of positive-politeness strategies while men in analogous situations do not, and that women are more likely to apologize, soften criticism or express thanks...

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...

Associations of 6-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency with 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies during face-to-face play were investigated in 126 dyads. Infant and mother face, gaze, touch, and vocal quality were coded second by second from split-screen videotape. Self- and interactive contingencies were defined as auto- and lagged cross-correlation, resp...

Three interventions used to assist highly self-critical patients develop self-compassion are described and illustrated with case material. Theoretical background, assumed mechanism of change, and research evidence for each intervention is presented.