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Univ of Massachusetts Pr (1998), Hardcover, 303 pages
Description
This collection makes the case for literary criticism as an informed, aggressive, personal, and often humorous response to writers and writing. An unrepentant academic, William Pritchard nonetheless finds himself looking vainly, in much current professional study of literature, for what he sees as criticism's central task. This involves, in part, an attentiveness to the performing voice of the novelist, poet, or essayist under discussion. To bring out that quality, the critic must exploit, with invention and intrepidity, his or her own responsive voice - must "talk back" to the work of art.
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303 p.; 9.29 inches
ISBN
1558491384 / 9781558491380
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(1) GONE
(2) READIN
authors discussed:
william shakespeare, edmund burke, william blake, william wordsworth, george gordon
lord byron, emily bronte, charlotte bronte, anne bronte, nathaniel hawthorne, emily dickinson, matthew arnold
thomas caryle, henry james, w.b. yeats, t.s. eliot, ford madox ford, r.p. blackmur, anthony powell, kingsley amis
v.s. naipaul, doris lessing, norman mailer, terry southern, robert penn warren, donald hall, donald davie, julian symons
(2) READIN
authors discussed:
william shakespeare, edmund burke, william blake, william wordsworth, george gordon
lord byron, emily bronte, charlotte bronte, anne bronte, nathaniel hawthorne, emily dickinson, matthew arnold
thomas caryle, henry james, w.b. yeats, t.s. eliot, ford madox ford, r.p. blackmur, anthony powell, kingsley amis
v.s. naipaul, doris lessing, norman mailer, terry southern, robert penn warren, donald hall, donald davie, julian symons