Criticism in Society

by Imre Salusinszky

Overview

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. Literary criticism, if it is a discipline, is surely that discipline which has been most exclusively concerned with the question of its own function. The main subject within criticism seems always to have been “The Function of Criticism”. Featuring nine authors, the early history of these essays is the attempt to separate criticism off from the art that it deals with, generally with unhappy consequences for criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415291361
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/17/2002
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Authored by Salusinszky, Imre

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Jacques Derrida; Chapter 2 Northrop Frye; Chapter 3 Harold Bloom; Chapter 4 Geoffrey Hartman; Chapter 5 Frank Kermode; Chapter 6 Edward Said; Chapter 7 Barbara Johnson; Chapter 8 Frank Lentricchia; Chapter 9 J. Hillis Miller;