Polemic: Critical or Uncritical

ISBN-13: 9780415972284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str.

Jane Gallop

Opis

What is criticism supposed to do? Is polemic a legitimate face of criticism, or simply its excess? What does it mean to read critically or uncritically? These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters: Louis Menand on the Andrew Sarris - Pauline Kael slugfest over popular movies; Jonathan Crewe on the entertainment value that printed polemics provided as far back as the 16th century; Michael Warner on Kant's views of critical reading; as well as other essays on Foucault, Habermas, and Boswell with (or vs.) Dr. Johnson. conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.

Spis treści

Introduction, JaneGallop; Chapter 1 Uncritical Reading, Michael Warner; Chapter 2 Reading as Self-Annihilation, Amy Hollywood; Chapter 3 “Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio”, Helen Deutsch; Chapter 4 Argument and Ethos, Amanda Anderson; Chapter 5 Can Polemic be Ethical?, JonathanCrewe; Chapter 6 Kael's Attack on Sarris, LouisMenand; Chapter 7 “What is Enlightenment?”, JaneGallop;

O autorze

Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of several books, most recently Anecdotal Theory (Duke, 2002).