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" The character of criticism / "
Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
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BL
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956653
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b711023
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| Main Entry
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Harpham, Geoffrey Galt,1946-
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The character of criticism /\ Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
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New York :: Routledge,, ©2006.
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195 pages ;; 23 cm
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0415971322
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: 0415971330
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: 9780415971324
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: 9780415971331
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-188) and index.
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| Contents
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The character of criticism -- Criticism as reverie : Elaine Scarry and the dream of pain -- Criticism as therapy : the hunger of Martha Nussbaum -- Criticism as symptom : Slavoj Žižek and the end of knowledge -- Criticism as obsession : Said and Conrad.
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world; it demands, in other words, to be read as a discourse of character. Through a series of detailed and intimate intellectual portraits of leading critics--Elaine Scarry, Martha Nussbaum, Slavoj Zizek, and Edward Said--Harpham unfolds the complex and indirect ways in which human character is expressed in criticism. A final chapter on "Criticism in a State of Terror" assesses the contemporary situation. The Character of Criticism represents not just a snapshot of contemporary criticism but a fresh approach to criticism itself that clarifies the stakes involved for writers and readers of criticism alike. It does so not by making difficult thinking easy but by making it stranger--more idiosyncratic, exotic, and singular.
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Criticism-- History-- 20th century.
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Critique-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
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Criticism-- History-- 20th century.
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Criticism.
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Literaturkritik
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Literaturtheorie
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Literatuurkritiek.
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Literatuurtheorie.
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801/.950904
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PN94.H39 2006
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17.82bcl
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17.82.bcl
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