| Description |
xv, 143 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell manifestos |
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Blackwell manifestos.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Meanwhile, in Paris -- Anthropology -- Another culture -- Perils circumvented -- Work to do -- 6.History: Do we do it justice? -- Official usage -- Cultural difference -- History and criticism -- Customary knowledge -- Dissonance -- An example -- The old historicism -- Criticism as cultural history -- The uses of criticism -- Critical skills -- 7.Desire: A force to reckon with -- Pleasure revisited -- Orpheus -- Loss -- The desire of the protagonist -- Stand-ins -- The desire of the reader -- The desire of the text -- Substitution -- Pacification -- Defiance -- Breaking the rules -- And so... -- Criticism |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Pleasure: Have we neglected it? -- Fiction for pleasure -- The case of tragedy -- The English curriculum -- Cries of joy -- ̀Aesthetic' pleasure -- The Pleasure of the Text -- Modernist unpleasure -- Gaiety -- 2.Piety: Haven't we overdone it? -- Criticism on the defensive -- Classic defences -- The advent of theory -- Law -- The superego -- Neurosis -- Complacency -- Culture and Anarchy -- Artefacts and pleasure -- Critical writing -- 3.Biography: Friend or foe? -- Life and art -- Biography in theory -- What the authors say -- New Historicism -- Shakespeare's life -- Fact or fiction? -- Shakespeare's memory -- Romance -- The death of the reader -- 4.Realism: Do we overrate it? -- A disputed value -- The default genre -- Imitation -- Insight -- Totalization -- Suspicion -- Objections -- The radical view -- Recuperation -- A counter-example -- 5.Culture: What do we mean by it? -- Cultural criticism -- Twin perils -- Culture as meanings -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL Ebook Library |
| Subject |
Books and reading.
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Criticism.
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Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| LC no. |
2010034985 |
| ISBN |
9781405169561 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9781405169578 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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