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The Character of Criticism (Paperback)
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The Character of Criticism (Paperback)
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging
than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description,
explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect
other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt
Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism
demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a
way of being in the world; it demands, in other words, to be read
as a discourse of character.
Through a series of detailed and intimate intellectual portraits of
leading critics--Elaine Scarry, Martha Nussbaum, Slavoj Zizek, and
Edward Said--Harpham unfolds the complex and indirect ways in which
human character is expressed in criticism. A final chapter on
"Criticism in a State of Terror" assesses the contemporary
situation. The Character of Criticism represents not just a
snapshot of contemporary criticism but a fresh approach to
criticism itself that clarifies the stakes involved for writers and
readers of criticism alike. It does so not by making difficult
thinking easy but by making it stranger--more idiosyncratic,
exotic, and singular.
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