Harpham Geoffrey Galt
Harpham Geoffrey Galt - The Character Of Criticism - Paperback
Harpham Geoffrey Galt - The Character Of Criticism - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: The Character Of Criticism
Author(s): Harpham Geoffrey Galt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415971331
Pages: 204 Pages
Publication Date: 7/12/2006
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
Description: 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.
Title: The Character Of Criticism
Author(s): Harpham Geoffrey Galt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415971331
Pages: 204 Pages
Publication Date: 7/12/2006
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
