Hidden Designs : The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138779266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str.

Jonathan Crewe

Opis

This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the 'new historicism' and post-structuralism, 'Hidden Designs' makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader communal functions of criticism. Major Renaissance authors and their recent critics are placed under 'suspicion' as Crewe explores the elements of 'criminality' inherent in the powerful interests -personal, institutional, political and cultural - served by the literary enterprise, or channelled through it.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments;  Prehistory  1. The politics of theater (I)  2. Sympathy  3. Countercurrents  4. The politics of theater (II)  5. Discovery  6. Epilogue: the way forward;  Notes;  Index

O autorze

Jonathan Wiliams