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The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Hardcover)
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The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Hardcover)
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This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on
a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and
its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving
knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as
vehicles. Discussion ranges widely with contributions from outside
the literary academy, including essays by the novelists Doris
Lessing and David Lodge. All the essays are concerned with what
literature, and therefore criticism, is or aims to be. Several are
concerned with a specifically aesthetic way of knowing, the value
of which lies in its very resistance to scientific models of
knowledge. The answers about how literature can resist such models,
and what kinds of knowing best respond to the distinctive nature of
aesthetic experience, are varied. The collection also addresses the
consequences for literary criticism of the politically-driven
critique which has recently undermined traditional concepts of
truth and knowledge in both arts and sciences. And finally it asks
whether professional criticism should be a deepened extension of
the sense-making activity of ordinary intelligent reading, or
whether it should be a purely objective study, analogous to other
scientific forms of knowledge studied in an academic context.
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