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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reproductions of Reproduction
Book SynopsisReproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies; the growing infatuation with hyper-realistic patterns in television, this book argues that each of these manifestations represents an attempt to resituate the paternal metaphor. While this shift affects our understandings of everything from narratives to law to time, it also suggests a point of potential political intervention, allowing us to identify the full implications of these changes.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1a REPRODUCTIVE PREHISTORIES; Chapter 2 THE END OF POP; Chapter 3 LAW IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION; Chapter 4 UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION; Chapter 5 DIGITAL DAD;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Fiction of Bioethics Reflective Bioethics
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Taylor & Francis Time and the Literary Essays from the English Institute
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Penguin Publishing Group The Art of Nonfiction A Guide for Writers and Readers
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce Cambridge
Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.Trade Review'These essays offer introductions to numerous ways of locating Joyce in the wider world of theory and ideas, and are useful springboards back into the works themselves … reading adding another layer to our understanding of the man and the work.' The Irish TimesTable of ContentsPreface; Contributors; Chronology of Joyce's life; 1. Reading Joyce Derek Attridge; 2. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane; 3. Joyce the Parisian Jean-Michel Rabaté; 4. Joyce the Modernist Christopher Butler; 5. Dubliners Garry Leonard; 6. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: transforming the nightmare of history John Paul Riquelme; 7. Ulysses Jennifer Levine; 8. Finnegans Wake Margot Norris; 9. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey; 10. Joyce and feminism Jeri Johnson; 11. Joyce and sexuality Joseph Valente; 12. Joyce and consumer culture Jennifer Wicke; 13. Joyce, colonialism and nationalism Marjorie Howes; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy Cambridge Contexts in Literature
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Cambridge University Press TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH DRAMA BY SMART JOHNAUTHORPAPERBACK
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
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Mariner Books Classics Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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iUniverse A Book Worth Reading
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Random House USA Inc Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison
Book SynopsisA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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Polity Press Walter Benjamin Critical Constellations
Book SynopsisThe works of Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth--century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction to Benjamin's thought, written with great clarity and richly located within his biography. Gilloch's focus upon Benjamin's reconstruction of the 'afterlife' of things enables him to reveal new interconnections and interpretive trajectories within Benjamin's themes and texts, whether they be his writings on language, literature, the city, the new media or the Arcades Project. A most welcome addition to Polity's series on contemporary thinkers." David Frisby, University of Glasgow "A fine text to accompany a firsthand reading of Benjamin, such reading is necessary to understand the thinker critiqued here." Library Journal "The book highlights some major motifs of Benjamin's work and will probably be of interest, above all, to students of media and related aspects of social history or theory" Brendan Moran, Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Abbreviations x Introduction: Benjamin as a Key Contemporary Thinker 1 1 Immanent Criticism and Exemplary Critique 27 2 Allegory and Melancholy 57 3 From Cityscape to Dreamworld 88 4 Paris and the Arcades 113 5 Culture and Critique in Crisis 140 6 Benjamin On-Air, Benjamin on Aura 163 7 Love at Last Sight 198 Conclusion: Towards a Contemporary Constellation 234 Notes 249 Bibliography 289 Index 298
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Polity Press Psychoanalytic Criticism
Book SynopsisWhat is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide--ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud to the present day.Trade Review"In this new edition of her indispensable Psychoanalytic Criticism, Elizabeth Wright not only brings the story up to date by sketching the major developments of the last fifteen years but prepares psychoanalysis and its readers for the centenary of the movement in the year 2000. Wright asks all the key questions about psychoanalysis as an instrument of cultural criticism, explores the whole range of schools and tendencies and is unfailingly alert and judicious in her own critical judgements. Her book helps us to grasp the essential paradox of psychoanalysis today: the more insistently it is exposed to attack, the more profound and provocative its central insights seem." Malcolm Bowie, All Souls College, University of Oxford "Elizabeth Wright's Psychoanalytic Criticism is the only place I know where two vital discourses, psychoanalysis and literary criticism, can achieve more than a passing acquaintance with each other. Professor Wright's central concern, the problematic relation of art to psychoanalysis, shapes the confrontations she carefully stages between the various Freudian and post-Freudian theories and their literary-critical counterparts. The new chapters that include contemporary work by Zizek, feminists, and the new Lacanians maintain this book as crucially relevant." Juliet Flower MacCannell, The University of California "Psychoanalytic Criticism provided a judicious and indispensable guide to this often bewildering and complex field of literary studies ... This second and updated edition, therefore, is to be welcomed. Wright has not just reissued the book but has used the opportunity to take stock of the field and reappraise the current state of play in psychoanalytic studies." Psychoanalytic Studies 'One cannot but admire its breadth and energy.' Psychoanalysis, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Part One. . 1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud. 2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology. 3. Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology. 4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious. Part Two. 5. Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other. Part Three. . 6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text. 7. Post-structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche. Part Four. . 8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion. 9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic. Part Five. 10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism. Conclusion. References. Further Reading. Index.
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Prospecting From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology
Book SynopsisWhy do we need literature and what does this need tell us about human nature? Iser shows how these questions come from his work on reader-response criticism and that the answers may lie in the new field of literary anthropology. He relates theoretical issues to analyses of individual works.Trade ReviewAn important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project. Modern Philology There is a much greater emphasis on the reader's function as 'performer' of the text in Prospecting than in Iser's other books. The two brilliant chapters on Beckett's fiction and drama are crucial here... Literature becomes 'play' and 'game,' and the reader becomes a performer of himself. This idea of performance becomes central to Iser's new theory. Art does not present life; it performs it. Yearbook of English Studies.
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Is Literary History Possible
Book SynopsisThis text is a study of the thinking which underlies recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories - most of them contemporary works - Perkins elaborates on fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history.Trade ReviewIs Literzry History Possible? is a book you must read. It is pleasure to be able to that the duty is made enjoyable by the clarity of though and expression. When Perkins concisely explains how literary history in also literary criticism but is different from what we usually call history, and why it is both a complex and and worthwhile pursuit, more than antiquarian interest in a 'aesthetic spectacle', anyone can see that most writers on such a topic would have had more words, fewer ideas, and less effect. What more can one ask for than lucid learining on a topic of major importance? Biblioteque d'Humanisme et Renaissance The highest achievement of Perkin's book comes in the clarity he brings to the contestation, the dignified, serious, judicious, and generous rationality he bestows on the subject. He acknowledges the damaging confusion bedeviling humanities at the moment without enlarging it, and goes a long way in this book to showing a way out of the worst excesses the contestation has engendered. -- Theoharis Constantine Theoharis Harvard Review Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like Rene Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making clear the underlying assumptions of many different writers. Comparative Literature.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin
Book SynopsisMysticism, Connor argues, lies at the heart of Bataille's double identity as an intellectual and as a kind of anarchic prophet.Trade ReviewThis book will contribute to the study of ethics by opening up a new field of writing, Bataille's mystical writings, for study. Virginia Quarterly Review Peter Tracey Connor's Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin is three books in one: a sure-footed analysis of Bataille's notion of 'inner experience' and its distinction from experiences of mystical transport, an equally astute appraisal of a central conception of language, morality, and politics for contemporary critical thought, and a vivid implied history of the reasons why literary theory is practiced and resisted today... an elegant and concise book... indispensable for a wide range of scholars in the fields of religious studies, French studies, and art history. -- Ulrich Baer MLN Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin does a commendable job of demonstrating the extent to which Bataille's Sadean corpus remains indebted to Christian mystics such as Meister Eckert and Jakob Boehme. -- Richard Wolin Bookforum 2004 A careful study of Bataillean 'inner experience' and a sensitive anaylsis of the ways in which the ecstatic experiences Bataille describes inflect the author's style, his political engagements, and his ethical convictions. -- Milo Sweedler French Review 2005
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Basil Bunting on Poetry
Book SynopsisThroughout, editor Peter Makin expands upon and annotates the lectures with additional comments drawn from Bunting's writings.Trade ReviewMakin has edited these lectures conservatively and sensitively: the speaking voice, with all its asides and modest caveats, has not been excised. With publications as useful and thorough as this, Bunting may yet secure his deserved place on the teaching syllabus of twentieth-century British poetry. Forum for Modern Language Studies There are many interesting essays here, and all conspire to make one of the most sustained poetic arguments for poetry as a form of music than any I know... Professor Makin and Johns Hopkins have done a valued service in bringing Bunting's readable and provocative prose writings to print. Oyster Boy Review Carefully and unpedantically edited with scrupulous notes... The book is a fine tribute to Bunting in his centenary year. -- David Latane American Book Review
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University of Toronto Press Essays on Life Writing
Book SynopsisLife writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included biography. It is a way of seeing literary and other texts that neither objectifies nor subjectifies the nature of a particular cultural truth.Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars, most of whom are women engaged in larger projects in life writing or in archival research. In the more practical pieces the author has discerned a pattern in autobiographical text, or subtext, that has come to revolutionize the life, the critic’s approach, or the discipline itself. In the theoretical pieces, authors make cogent proposals to view a body of literature in a new way, often in order to in
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Penguin Random House LLC Voice Lessons On Becoming a Woman Writer
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The Borgo Press Glorious Perversity Decline and Fall of Literary Decadence 35 IOEvans Studies in the Philosophy Criticism of Literature
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Scarecrow Press The Pedagogy of Adaptation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays focuses on numerous contexts to emphasize why film adaptations matter to students of literature. Written by specialists in a variety of fields, ranging from film, radio, theater, and even language studies, it is the first such volume devoted exclusively to teaching adaptations from a practical, teacher-centered angle.Trade ReviewA superb resource for teachers....Practical and theoretically aware; will be of service to those who teach courses that involve screen adaptation. Recommended. * CHOICE *
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Ohio State University Press Archive Feelings
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Ohio State University Press Digital Fiction and the Unnatural
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Ohio State University Press Audionarratology
Book SynopsisRadio drama has been around for more than one hundred years and is still vibrant in many countries. A narrative-dramatic genre and art form in its own right, radio drama has traditionally crossed medial and generic boundaries and continues to do so in our age of digitization. Audionarratology: Lessons from Audio Drama, edited by Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, explores radio drama from a narratological angle. The contributions cover key questions surrounding audiophonic meaning-making, storyworld creation, mediation, focalization, suspense, unreliability, and ambiguity as well as the relationship between script and performance, seriality, antinarrative tendencies, and radio drama''s political implications now and in its early days. The book thus explores the interplay between sound, voices, music, language, silence, electroacoustic manipulation, and narrative structures. Providing examples from American, Australian, British, Dutch, and German radio drama-such as&nb
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Ohio State University Press Shadows of the Enlightenment
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Ohio State University Press Narrative in the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisIn Narrative in the Anthropocene, Erin James poses two complementary questions: What can narrative teach us about our current geological epoch, defined and marked by the irrevocable activity of humans on the Earth''s geology and ecosystems? and What can our current geological epoch teach us about narrative? Drawing from a wide range of sources-including Jane Austen''s Mansfield Park, Maria Popova''s collective biography Figuring, Richard McGuire''s graphic novel Here, Indigenous and Afrofuturist speculative fiction, and more-James argues that a richer understanding of the forms and functions of narrative in the Anthropocene provides us with invaluable insight into how stories shape our world. At the same time, she contends that the Anthropocene alters the very nature of narrative. Throughout her exploration of these themes, James lays the groundwork for an Anthropocene narrative theory, introducing new modes of reading narrative in the Anthropocene; new cate
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Ohio State University Press A New Anatomy of Storyworlds
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Ohio State University Press The Story of Fictional Truth
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Ohio State University Press Experiencing Fiction
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Ohio State University Press The Rhetoric of Fictionality
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Ohio State University Press With Bodies
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Wayne State University Press Acts of Angry Writing On Citizenship and Orientalism in Postcolonial India Series in Citizenship Studies
Book SynopsisFrom Aristotle to Seneca, ancient philosophers considered anger to be aggressive and incompatible with rational conduct, and later thinkers associated this “illogical” emotion with femininity and its flaws. In Acts of Angry Writing, Alessandra Marino looks at anger differently, as an essential condition for writing in contexts of struggle.
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New York University Press Critical Essays
Book SynopsisA showcase of the best literary essays from Ford Madox Ford.Trade Review"This collection contains more unexpected fun, more delighted, chatty wisdom, than any other book of criticism you could think of." -The Guardian "In Critical Essays, a new selection of Ford's previously uncollected writings on literature and art, there are sweeping dicta aplenty." -The American Scholar "If there is any English critic worth reading on Modernism it is Ford Madox Ford, whose Critical Essays remind us that he was one of the first to admire Joyce's Ulysses and one of the bravest to argue with E.M. Forster." -The Times (London)
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Postcolonialism A Guide for the Perplexed Guides for the Perplexed
Book SynopsisPostcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. This book addresses the many concerns, forms and 'specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, and history and politics.Trade ReviewPramod Nayar's survey of postcolonialism covers substantial terrain with consummate ease. It moves from the theoretical and literary engagements with colonialism's cultures, the rise of postcolonial thought in anti-colonial struggles through the major literary themes of space, nationalism, sexuality and gender, to newer postcolonial formations in the cosmopolitan and globalized age we live in. Nayar's close attention to tropes, literary figurations, the politics of postcolonial theory and the continued relevance of postcolonial approaches to terrorism, cybercultures and globalization - all carefully illustrated and evidenced from texts from Africa, Asia, South American and other formerly colonized nations - makes this book at once an indispensable introduction to the field and a critical evaluation of the literary-political discipline of "Postcolonial Studies." The book will be of interest to students in History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies and Theory across the world where questions about race, culture, colonialism and identity continue to productively 'trouble' pedagogy and reading practices. -- Professor SW Perera, University of Peradeniya, Sri LankaTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Postcolonial Thought; 1. Colonial Cultures; 2. Nation and Nationalism; 3. Space and Place; 4. Gender and Sexuality; 5. Cosmopolitanisms; 6. New Concerns; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Adorno and Literature Continuum Literary Studies
Book SynopsisDespite the upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Bringing together original essays from a an international group of contributors, this book offers a wide ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking.Trade Review"This elegant and finely argued collection of essays...sends the reader back to the Notes to Literature, in particular, with a sharpened appetite...' 'In a series of scrupulous readings of Adorno's reflections on literature, which have been noticeably neglected in the recent reconsideration of his thought among anglophone scholars, they communicate the sophistication of his criticism and its own critical and utopian potential for literary studies.' Radical Philosophy"Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK) and Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature; 1. Literature, and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno, Stewart Martin (Middlesex University, UK); 2. Adorno's critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value, Martin Ryle (University of Sussex, UK) and Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University, UK); 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music, Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, UK); 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre, Eva Geulen (University of Bonn, Germany); Part II: Poetry and Poetics; 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths, UK); 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody, Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK); 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency, Robert Kaufman (Stanford University, USA); 8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger, Iain Macdonald (University of Montreal, Canada); Part III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel; 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell, Paul Fleming (New York University, USA); 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukacs's Theory of the Novel, Timothy Hall (University of East London, UK); 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment, Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetic and the Postcolonial Novel, Timothy Bewes (Brown University, USA); 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK); Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hlne Cixous Live Theory Live Theory S
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a clear and informative introduction to one of the most important and influential European writers working today. It includes exploration of Cixous' theory of feminine writing, an interview discussing her influences and inspirations, and her thoughts on the nature of writing.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Feminine Writing; 3. Fiction and Theatre; 4. Poetic Theory; 5. Cixous on Others: Others on Cixous; 6. Cixous Live; 7. Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) THE DEATH OF THE CRITIC BY MCDONALD RONANAUTHORPAPERBACK
Book SynopsisSeeks to defend the role of the public critic. This book argues against claims that all artistic value is simply relative and subjective. It considers why high-profile, public critics, such as William Empson, F R Leavis or Lionel Trilling, become much rarer in the later twentieth century.Trade ReviewMentioned on www.pensioneronline.com -- Pensioneronline"[A] satisfyingly chewy new book" -- Prospect MagazineTitle mentioned in Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2008"The Death of the Critic is a concise and persuasive argument for the necessity of an engaged, evaluative criticism of literature, one in which critics address readers instead of each other." -Post No Ills Magazine"McDonald's argument is witty and persuasive" English Drama Media Journal, October 2008Author review of another book, menion of this book at end credits, The Observer. 4 January 2009."in the best tradition of the incisive criticism, McDonald offers an extreme polemic in order to provoke the discipline to interrogate the consequences of its practice" Edinburgh Review, Dec 2008 -- Ross AllowayThe virtue of this book is that, while it is a strong protest against what has been a prevailing climate in English departments, it is neither blimpish nor complacent. ...his regrets have been expressed with irresistible clarity. --Times Literary Supplement"Whenever you think of this 21st-century world, McDonald's assessment poses serious question that beg for specific application...When McDonald argues that criticism needs to be more evaluative, he isn't talking thumbs up or down. He means criticism that takes seriously the role of engaging with the issues and aesthetics of the work at hand...So that eye-catching but perhaps overstated title is a bit of a misnomer. The critic isn't dead. In fact, the defibrillators that can bring him or her back are all around us, and you can find many of them in this smart, useful little book." —John Freeman, The Boston Globe, March 5, 2008 -- John Freeman"McDonald has penned a passionate four-chapter eulogy for a practice that he believes can be reborn...in a pair of core chapters- about critical value, and science and sensibility- McDonald's phrasing and historical erudition are as sharp as the bloody knife on the cover." -San Francisco Bay Guardian"[A] deft polemic, ... the virtue of this book is that it is neither blimpish nor complacent ... [and it is ] expressed with irresistable clarity." John Mullan, The Times [Web], Thursady 13th March 2008Reviewed in German by Thomas Vaessens, Boeken, 8th February 2008."The thorniest reasons for this cutback, the ones that deal with internal fractures within criticism itself, are just now beginning to be addressed. In his provocative, enormously informative new book, "The Death of the Critic," Rónán McDonald dives into this territory with both sleeves rolled up. He traces the current suspicion of the critic's role to debates that have raged since Plato. Forget about bloggers, cut-rate publishers, and amazon.com (the usual suspects); the critic's killer, McDonald argues, is criticism itself. ...The critic isn't dead. In fact, the defibrillators that can bring him or her back are all around us, and you can find many of them in this smart, useful little book." --John Freeman, Boston Globe -- John Freeman * Boston Globe *"A lively, rigorous argument for the future of criticism." Brian Dillon, Irish Times -- Brian Dillon, Irish Times * Irish Times, The *Author reviews another title, book mentioned. * Irish Times, The *"McDonald argues that crowing blog-based citizen opinionistas, triumphant over shrinking print media coverage of books are simply kicking a dead horse; the lit critic, it seems, was killed already by the an out-of-control sense of cultural relativism, which has over the 20th century wormed its way into literature programs, engendering artistic and aesthetic relativism. McDonald contends that the idea of artistic expression's equanimity, and the subsequent equanimity of opinion regarding that expression, has marginalized the important and difficult work of honestly evaluating artistic worth. Emphasizing literature, his specialty, McDonald illustrates how trendy efforts to make art more scientific, more academic or more cultural ultimately undermine its role as art, making it more difficult (if not impossible) to consider with the language of art. McDonald illustrates how specific movements—including romanticism, fin-de-siecle and radical aesthetic individualism—have obscured and in some cases removed entirely those traditional standards of value. A daring, but fitting, comparison between aesthetics and ethics shows how standards may be relative but are never irrelevant; McDonald's cogent, largely convincing attempt to pin the critic's murder on relativism is sure to raise eyebrows among academics, though it doesn't do much to instill hope of the critic's resurrection." (Dec.) -Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Role of the Critic; The Public Critic in the 20th Century; Anglo American Literary Criticism since 1968; The Value of Criticism and the Criticism of Value.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Death and the Labyrinth
Book SynopsisExplores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing, whose work has been celebrated by the likes of Cocteau, Duchamp, Breton, Robbe Grillet, Gide, and Giacometti. This work includes an introduction, chronology and bibliography to Foucault's work.Trade Review"One of the important things about the Roussel book, however, is that it shows that approach to literature in full flight. And reading it is a pleasure, but a pleasure that is not unmixed with pain. Foucault's own enjoyment, not only of the texts of Roussel, but of the process of producing his analyses of those texts, is contagious. And if that makes us go back and read some of Roussel's work, then the book has served an important function... given Foucault's own fondness for subjugated knowledges and forgotten histories, we would be well justified in uncovering this secret love of an anguished and obsessive young philosopher." -Timothy O'Leary, Foucault Studies, February 2009 -- Timothy O'LearyTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction by James Faubion; Chronology of Foucault's Life & Work; 1. The Threshold and the Key; 2. The Cushions of the Billiard table; 3. Rhyme and Reason; 4. Dawns, Mine Crystal; 5. The Metamorphosis and the Labyrinth; 6. The Surface of Things; 7. The Empty Lens; 8. The Enclosed Sun; 9. An Interview with Michel Foucault by Charles Ruas Postscript: "On Raymond Roussel" by John Ashbery Bibliography of primary and secondary works Selective Bibliography; Index.
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Polebridge Press Dark Interval Towards a Theology of Story
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Im Pressd Glitch Theory
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DHH Publishing Poetry Changes Lives Daily Thoughts on Poetry and History
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Cambridge University Press Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of SelfHelp
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press African Literature in Transition Volume 3
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