National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

1993 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerOpera in America: A Cultural HistoryJohn DizikesThis text tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural enviroment of America. It includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences and theatres throughout the country from 1735 to the ...Amazon1993 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAuthors and Owners: The Invention of CopyrightMark RoseAmazonThe Phantom EmpireGeoffrey O’BrienAmazonThe Queen’s ThroatWayne KoestenbaumAmazonUnited States: Essays 1952-1992Gore VidalAmazon

1994 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Culture of BruisingGerald EarlyEarly's subjects range far and wide - essays in which he shares with us his considerable insights and expertise on such various subjects as multiculturalism and Black History Month, baseball, racist memorabilia, performance magic and race, Malcolm X, early...Amazon1994 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistPoetry of MourningJahan RamazaniAmazonReasonable CreaturesKatha PollittAmazonSex and SuitsAnne HollanderAmazonThe Western CanonHarold BloomAmazon

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution FranceRobert DarntonIn this remarkable book, Robert Darnton addresses one of the classic 'big questions' of history - what caused the French Revolution? - by beginning with a query of a different order, a more manageable one that can be answered: what did the ......Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAfter the FactClifford GeertzAmazonPaul Celan: Poet, Survivor, JewJohn FelstinerAmazonThe All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994Stanley CrouchAmazonThe Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets and PoetastersThomas M. DischAmazon

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerFinding a FormWilliam Gass"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . . . the avant garde . . . the demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Commi...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistArt for Art’s Sake and Literary LifeGene H. Bell-VilladaAmazonFame and FollyCynthia OzickAmazonThe Love Affair as a Work of ArtDan HofstadterAmazonThe True Story of the NovelMargaret Anne DoodyAmazon