National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHugging the Shore: Essays and CriticismJohn UpdikeWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth ...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAll American MusicJohn RockwellAmazonArt and Ardor: EssaysCynthia OzickAmazonThe Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth CenturySvetlana AlpersAmazonThe Odes of John KeatsHelen VendlerAmazon

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerTwentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on PoetryRobert Hass...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistDawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern EraDonald KeeneAmazonHazlitt: The Mind of a CriticDavid BromwichAmazonThe Innocent EyeRoger ShattuckAmazonThe Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern OblivionLeo SteinbergAmazon

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHabitations of the WordWilliam GassBrings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistHard Facts: Setting and Form in the American NovelPhillip FisherAmazonOccasional Prose: EssaysMary McCarthyAmazonOpera and Ideas: From Mozart to StraussPaul RobinsonAmazonPierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic PantomimeRobert StoreyAmazon

1975 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Great War and Modern MemoryPaul FussellLandmark study of World War I, describing its effects on the nation....Amazon

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerDance WritingsEdwin DenbyEdwin Denby, who died in 1983, was the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. His reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his s...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistCollected ProseRobert LowellAmazonEvery Force Evolves a FormGuy DavenportAmazonSight LinesArlene CroceAmazonUnderstanding ToscaniniJoseph HorowitzAmazon

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerWorks and Lives: The Anthropologist as AuthorClifford GeertzThe illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categoriesthis is magic, that is technologyhas long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of wri...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistLaw and Literature: A Misunderstood RelationRichard A. PosnerAmazonMelodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic LanguageJohn HollanderAmazonPoetry and the WorldRobert PinskyAmazonThe Death of Rhythm and BluesNelson GeorgeAmazon

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerNot by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of HistoryJohn Clive...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert FrostDavid BromwichAmazonAmerica’s RomeWilliam L. VanceAmazonEnchanted Drawings: The History of AnimationCharles SolomonAmazonMetaphor & Memory: EssaysCynthia OzickAmazon

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerEncounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical PresentArthur DantoProvides a collection of essays on modern art covering such artists as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe...Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistEmily DickinsonCamille PagliaAmazonEssays in DisguiseWilfrid SheedAmazonNotes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989Stanley CrouchAmazonSelected Writings, 1950-1990Irving HoweAmazon

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHolocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of MemoryLawrence L. LangerAnnotation This important and original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. Langer argues that it is necessary to deromanticize the survival experien...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistFemale Perversions: The Temptations of Emma BovaryLouise J. KaplanAmazonInventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works & Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyNorman F. CantorAmazonOdd JobsJohn UpdikeAmazonVulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other MediaJ. HobermanAmazon

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaGarry WillsThe power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His ...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarSusan GriffinAmazonCan Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American CultureDana GioiaAmazonThe Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the AcademyFrederick CrewsAmazonWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the WestWallace StegnerAmazon