Produktbild: A Future for Criticism

A Future for Criticism

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

28.01.2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

152

Maße (L/B/H)

0.8/15.4/22.8 cm

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6956-1

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"The unbuttoned directness of this little book is invigorating." - Jean E. Howard (Shakespeare Studies, 2013) "A Future for Criticism issues a challenge to critics that really amounts to having the courage of our convictions and sticking to what we're good at, resisting the encroachments of history and psychology, and having 'confidence in the independent capabilities of criticism' (76) ...

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

28.01.2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

152

Maße (L/B/H)

0.8/15.4/22.8 cm

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6956-1

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  • Preface.1 Pleasure: Have we neglected it?Fiction for pleasure.The case of tragedy.The English curriculum.Cries of joy.'Aesthetic' pleasure.The Pleasure of the Text.Modernist unpleasure.Gaiety.2 Piety: Haven't we overdone it?Criticism on the defensive.Classic defences.The advent of theory.Law.The superego.Neurosis.Complacency.Culture and Anarchy.Artefacts and pleasure.Critical writing.3 Biography: Friend or foe?Life and art.Biography in theory.What the authors say.New Historicism.Shakespeare's life.Fact or fiction?Shakespeare's memory.Romance.The death of the reader.4 Realism: Do we overrate it?A disputed value.The default genre.Imitation.Insight.Totalization.Suspicion.Objections.The radical view.Recuperation.A counter-example.5 Culture: What do we mean by it?Cultural criticism.Twin perils.Culture as meanings.Meanwhile, in Paris ...Anthropology.Another culture.Perils circumvented.Work to do.6 History: Do we do it justice?Offi cial usage.Cultural difference.History and criticism.Customary knowledge.Dissonance.An example.The old historicism.Criticism as cultural history.The uses of criticism.Critical skills.7 Desire: A force to reckon with.Pleasure revisited.Orpheus.Loss.The desire of the protagonist.Stand-ins.The desire of the reader.The desire of the text.Substitution.Pacification.Defiance.Breaking the rules.And so ...Criticism.Notes.Index.