The World, the Text, and the Critic

The World, the Text, and the Critic
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1983
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674961876


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Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.

The World, the Text, and the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguisti
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

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In these essays, Edward Said challenges contemporary literary criticism. He examines, among other things, narrative, focusing on Joseph Conrad and the curious d
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Edward William Said
Categories: Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

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The Limits of Critique
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Rita Felski
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Why do critics feel impelled to unmask and demystify the works that they read? What is the rationale for their conviction that language is always withholding so
Humanism and Democratic Criticism
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities,