The World, the Text, and the Critic

The World, the Text, and the Critic

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 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

The World, the Text, and the Critic

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9780099916208

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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 dearth of literature on Jonathan Swift.


Humanism and Democratic Criticism

Humanism and Democratic Criticism

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780231122641

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brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten --


Edward Said and the Work of the Critic

Edward Said and the Work of the Critic

Author: Paul A. Bové

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780822325222

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DIVA distinguished panel of contributors assess and expand Edward Said’s many contributions to the study of colonialism, imperialism and representation that have marked his career-long struggle to end conflict and further the effort to build civilizati/div


Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780674003026

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With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.


Musical Elaborations

Musical Elaborations

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780231073196

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Examines the performance of Western high-art music, the politicized theorizing of it, and the use of "melody, solitude, and affirmation" in it.


The Limits of Critique

The Limits of Critique

Author: Rita Felski

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 022629403X

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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 some important truth, that the critic's task is to unearth what is unsaid, naturalized, or repressed? These are the features of critique, a mode of thought that thoroughly dominates academic criticism. In this book, Rita Felski brilliantly exposes critique's more troubling qualities and proposes alternatives to it. Critique, she argues, is not just a method but also a sensibility--one best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion." As the characteristic affect of critique, suspicion, Felski shows, helps us understand critique's seductions and limitations. The questions that Felski poses about critique have implications well beyond intramural debates among literary scholars. Literary studies, says Felski, is facing a legitimation crisis thanks to a sadly depleted language of value that leaves the field struggling to find reasons why students should care about Beowulf or Baudelaire. Why is literature worth bothering with? For Felski, the tendencies to make literary texts the object of suspicious reading or, conversely, impute to them qualities of critique, forecloses too many other possibilities. Felski offers an alternative model that she calls "postcritical reading." Rather than looking behind the text for its hidden causes, conditions, and motives, she suggests that literary scholars place themselves in front of a text, reflecting on what it calls forth and makes possible. Here Felski enlists the work of Bruno Latour to rethink reading as a co-production between actors, rather than an unraveling of manifest meaning, a form of making rather than unmaking. As a scholar with an abiding respect for theory who has long deployed elements of critique in her own work, Felski is able to provide an insider's account of critique's limits and alternatives that will resonate widely in the humanities.


Anatole

Anatole

Author: Eve Titus

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2006-11-14

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0375839011

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Anatole is a most honorable mouse. When he realizes that humans are upset by mice sampling their leftovers, he is shocked! He must provide for his beloved family--but he is determined to find a way to earn his supper. And so he heads for the tasting room at the Duvall Cheese Factory. On each cheese, he leaves a small note--"good," "not so good," "needs orange peel"--and signs his name. When workers at the Duvall factory find his notes in the morning, they are perplexed--but they realize that this mysterious Anatole has an exceptional palate and take his advice. Soon Duvall is making the best cheese in all of Paris! They would like to give Anatole a reward--if only they could find him...


Beginnings

Beginnings

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780231059374

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This reissued classic traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of "beginning" in history and offers valuable insights into the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism.


Orientalism

Orientalism

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0804153868

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A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.