Confessions of the Critics: North American Critics' Autobiographical Moves

ISBN-13: 9780415914109 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 312 str.

H. Aram Veeser

Opis

This volume provides a revealing look into the thoughts and experiences of some of the most influential and important critics of the 20th century. The writers included avoid pretention and gross self-misrepresentation, giving way to raw, wholly believable emotion. Describing cumulative literary shocks and episodes of self-recognition, contributors offer insights to their ruling passions and works.

Spis treści

Part I Is It Okay to Read Subjectively?; Chapter 1 Autobiographical Literary Criticism as the New Belletrism, Diane P. Freedman; Chapter 2 Mourning Shakespeare, Madelon Sprengnether; Chapter 3 Interrupted Reading, Rachel M. Brownstein; Chapter 4 Autocritique, Candace Lang; Chapter 5 What Is at Stake in Confessional Criticism, Charles Altieri; Chapter 6 Confession versus Criticism, or What's the Critic Got to Do With It?, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Chapter 7 Through the Academic Looking Glass, Vincent P. Pecora; Chapter 8 Speaking Personally, David Simpson; Part II How Can a Critic Create a Self?; Chapter 9 Self-Interview, Gerald Graff; Chapter 10 Critical Personifications, Gillian Brown; Chapter 11 Overcoming “Auction Block”, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 12 Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood, Marianne Hirsch; Chapter 13 The MLA President's Column, Amitava Kumar; Chapter 14 Me and Not Me, Linda Orr; Chapter 15 Writing in Concert, Jeffrey Williams; Chapter 16 White-Boy Authenticity, Tim Brennan; Part III Just Do It!; Chapter 17 Life as We Know It, Michael Bérubé; Chapter 18 Lives, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Chapter 19 Laos Is Open, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 20 Damaged Goods, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 21 ::, William L. Andrews; Chapter 22 “Why Am I Always the Bad Guy?”, Judith Newton; Chapter 23 Let's Get Lost, Jane Tompkins;

O autorze

H. Aram Veeser is currently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University. He is the editor of The New Historicism and The New Historicism Reader, both published by Routledge.