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Beyond the Blurb is a selection of essays that identifies the most important principles of literary criticism and considers the relevance of those principles in the work of specific literary critics, including James Wood, Harold Bloom, and Susan Sontag. Intended for academic and general readers alike, this insightful collection of essays takes a contrarian attitude toward current orthodoxies—its assessment of the flawed strategies used by prominent critics is especially revealing—and offers a critical philosophy that reaffirms the value not just of criticism but of literature itself.
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Table of Content
Introduction; Part 1: Critical Issues; Close Reading; The Authority of Criticism; Aesthetic Autonomy; The Authority of Critics; Blogs and Alternative Literary Criticism; Part 2: Critical Failures; James Wood; Christopher Hitchens; Morris Dickstein and Historical Criticism; Hershel Parker: Criticism vs. Scholarship; Postmodern Fiction and Academic Criticism; Part 3: Critical Successes; Susan Sontag; Harold Bloom; Richard Poirer; William Gass; Michael Gorra’s Portrait of a Novel and ‘In-Between’ Criticism; David Winters’s Infinite Fictions; S.D. Chrostowska’s Matches; Bibliography; Acknowledgments.About the author
Daniel Green is a literary critic whose essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications both online and in print. He maintains the literary weblog, The Reading Experience, which he created in 2004.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 150 ● ISBN 9780990915058 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Publisher Cow Eye Press ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5212056 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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