It wasn't sophisticated literary criticism, but that wasn't the point.
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"Sexual Politics" combined literary criticism, historical analysis and passionate polemic.
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If it is doing exactly what it was designed to do—reflecting the current state of literary criticism—then the real problem is that literary criticism, like America's universities, is suffering from severe grade inflation.
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The sum is the funniest book of literary criticism ever written.
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The book helped elevate conversations about black feminism and literary criticism.
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The history of literary criticism is filled with would-be revolutionaries.
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As literary criticism goes, Gatti's move is not a radical one.
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But so did Richards, who claimed in Principles of Literary Criticism, that
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Do you have a favorite book about writing or about literary criticism?
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He would not publish another work of literary criticism until 1961, again, to
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His "Collected Critical Writings" (2008) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
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Since then it has showcased lengthy literary criticism and left-leaning political coverage.
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It's about people who don't want to study postmodern literary criticism like I did.
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Britain would soon become notorious for something far removed from literary criticism: armed insurrection.
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An explosion of online literary criticism is settling down into an interesting heap of debris.
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His work impacted upon an enormous range of fields, including literary criticism, theatre studies, and linguistics.
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A blend of memoir, literary criticism and social history, it is as engaging as it is thoughtful.
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Literary criticism has been routinely lambasted for its niceness, its lack of intellectual rigor, and its mediocrity.
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That partnership spurred Professor Marcus to apply a psychological prism to much of his own literary criticism.
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The writings of Clement Greenberg and Lionel Trilling set the high-water mark for art and literary criticism.
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Here, he reveals himself to be a skillful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography.
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JP: In a way the book is line of defense against literary criticism, which has seeped into poetry.
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Sabra Embury writes fiction and literary criticism for Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Believer.
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Literary criticism typically tends to emphasize the singularity of exceptional works that have stood the test of time.
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NUMBER-crunching literary criticism was the butt of an academic in-joke in "Arcadia" (1993), Tom Stoppard's cerebral play.
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While he was circumspect about his academic credentials, Mr. Roven taught at universities and wrote music and literary criticism.
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Most literary criticism is grounded in close reading, with scholars poring over individual texts to tease out subtle meanings.
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Sir's claim that my tweets "trivialis[e] literary criticism" may well be be true, but is entirely beside the point.
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"Time Travel," like all of Gleick's work, is a fascinating mash-up of philosophy, literary criticism, physics and cultural observation.
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As Judith Shulevitz wrote recently in The New York Review of Books, Ms. Millett all but invented feminist literary criticism.
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" He laughed off the 21996 fatwa by Iran&aposs Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie as "an extreme form of literary criticism.
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Ah yes, a man who can't even read briefings written in full sentences is providing literary criticism of a House Resolution.
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It is a demanding profession that combines acting, oration, writing, historical research and literary criticism and requires countless hours of memorization.
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Too irresponsible to be literary criticism, and too irregular to be autobiography, Orner's book (with illustrations by his brother, Eric Orner) is instead an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between those genres: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges.
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Contemporary literary criticism, aware of both history and religion but not disarmed by either, can quite respectfully accommodate the difference he notes.
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The line, embedded unceremoniously in the middle of a page-long paragraph, doubles, like so many others in "Asymmetry," as literary criticism.
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On the podcast, we can hear her practicing a supple kind of literary criticism, on the fly, in front of the authors.
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The novel, titled "Little Boy," fuses elements of autobiography, literary criticism, poetry and philosophy, in a headlong, often stream-of-consciousness style.
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For a long time, I thought this proved that Johnson should have kept to literary criticism and left philosophy to the professionals.
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From a vaunted perch at Yale, he flew in the face of almost every trend in the literary criticism of his day.
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The other sections — biography, autobiography, theater, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, classical literature, literary criticism, art, photography, books by friends — are not alphabetized.
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Literary criticism shouldn't be about performing intellectual acrobatics to prove yourself, and that's how I'd describe a lot of the reviews I wrote.
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The kind of literary criticism Sacks is speaking about, and which Book Marks collects, represents a relatively narrow swath of what's actually published.
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"Ah yes, a man who can't even read briefings written in full sentences is providing literary criticism of a House Resolution," she tweeted.
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I did this online a few weeks ago when one tried arguing with me about a piece of racialized literary criticism I wrote.
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Like, how could I be writing literary criticism and using MTV's printers to print out my dissertation, and doing this at the same time.
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It seems to have taken the election of a man who is the personification of perspectivalism to reset the ethical calibrations of literary criticism.
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A generation of self-styled postmodern anthropologists, fearing that categorizing human groups was inherently oppressive, insisted that anthropology become a form of literary criticism.
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As well as having collections of Hispanic literature and literary criticism, there are sections dedicated to books in English, graphic novels and vinyl records.
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Andrew Paulson received a bachelor's degree in French literature and literary criticism from Yale in 1981 and studied at the university's school of drama.
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Kraus finds herself writing the story of Acker's life by way of literary criticism and traditional biography, as would a novelist and her subject.
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But it is also worth noting that the boundaries of literary criticism, at least as they are traditionally conceived, are being exceeded across the internet.
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Smyth's reflections on loss weave in and out of literary criticism, and gesture toward questions about how art gives meaning to life, and vice versa.
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Her nonfiction works included an essay collection, a book of literary criticism titled "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" (1992) and editing anthologies.
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Although teachers dislike the term "hidden meanings," decoding a subtext or exposing an implicit meaning or ideology is what a lot of academic literary criticism does.
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He is taking stock of childhood, and his decades in America, and in doing so he performs a kind of literary criticism on his own life.
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I was vividly reminded of this by Navid Kermani's Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities — the best new book of literary criticism I've read this year.
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What's doubly impressive about Sandberg's decision to write it: she must have known it required opening herself up to feedback that far exceeds the usual literary criticism.
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It came out in 21900, and, along with Norman Holland's " Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare ," published the same year, was one of the pioneering works in psychoanalytic literary criticism.
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The principal reason psychoanalysis triumphed over alternative theories and was taken up in fields outside medicine, like literary criticism, is that it presented its findings as inductive.
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By longstanding tradition, as Professor Hartman reminded his readers, literary criticism was seen as a handmaiden of literature — an adjunct whose sole raison d'être was literature itself.
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MARY SHELLEY The parallels between the life of Mary Shelley and the treatment of the monster in "Frankenstein" have been examined in ample scholarship and literary criticism.
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"Read as little as possible of literary criticism," Rilke warned Franz Xaver Kappus, the 19-year-old military cadet and addressee of Letters to a Young Poet.
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The theme that loosely binds the pieces in her latest collection, "Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays," is the essential importance — the cultural necessity — of literary criticism.
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He received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2006 for "The Geoffrey Hartman Reader," an anthology, published in 2004, that he edited with Daniel T. O'Hara.
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His everyday language, however, is French, Mr. Begley said, because that is what he speaks with his wife, Anka Muhlstein, a French writer of biographies and literary criticism.
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And there are other tools from literary criticism that we can apply in miniature, ones that would let us hear and learn from a wider range of perspectives.
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The rest of my reading experience was less moist, but when was the last time that literary criticism yielded an emotional reaction other than faint horror or muffled cackling?
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Over the past several years, Cusk has been periodically producing autobiographical essays, and her new book, "Coventry," collects this work alongside a selection of her art and literary criticism.
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But there are more practical reasons why literary criticism is more generous than film or music writing, and why, by extension, a "Rotten Tomatoes for books" doesn't make much sense.
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Wahl found a position for Mr. Bonnefoy at the National Center for Scientific Research to write on the New Criticism and the philosophy of literary criticism in the English language.
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In his work of literary criticism, "The Sense of an Ending," Frank Kermode wrote about the relationship between literary endings, character deaths and the longstanding human fascination with apocalyptic fantasies.
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Fragment 31 is one of the longest extant pieces of Sappho's work, preserved because it was excerpted in "On the Sublime," a work of literary criticism from the first century.
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Instead of stories within stories, we have "a series of Chinese boxes," as Lahiri writes in a brilliant introduction that made me want to read more literary criticism by her.
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"Possession," A.S. Byatt I am a sucker for campus novels, and this is one of the best, even though it has some pretty scathing things to say about feminist literary criticism.
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S. Eliot, "Four Quartets" In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
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"Cat Person" is a short story, not a book, so until Roupenian publishes her collection it is not eligible for a review in one of the influential old literary criticism hubs.
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Because I wanted to be a better writer, I'd read books by great writers and then usually go to the library and try to find the literary criticism on each book.
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The truly interesting thing about those articles, however, is that they demonstrate the huge gap between the new literary criticism taking place online and the media's ability to respond to it.
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The slight tremor in Relling's voice alerts him to a human connection that is, in some sense, outside the language of literary criticism, or at least outside the protocols of pedagogy.
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In nonfiction, a wide array of subjects: threats to democracy, ancient crafts, strategy during the Vietnam War, Ezra Pound in confinement and the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee's literary criticism.
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I think the last time I just woke up in the way that she made me wake up was when I read 'The Madwoman in the Attic,' that wonderful feminist literary criticism.
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Davenport was still a graduate student while Kenner was ensconced as head of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an important, if controversial, voice in literary criticism.
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Her way of thinking about the self — in a collection of essays that cover everything from Smith's childhood to literary criticism to Justin Bieber — does feel oddly abstract and academic for 2018.
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Without ethical judgment, which oftentimes penalizes current art and literary criticism, Lavery painstakingly details how the sometimes idealized and misinformed view of Japan indeed shaped Victorian sensibilities, in both form and content.
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All of these reactions are understandable; and it is surely true that the forensic accounting that led to the revelation of Ms. Raja's identity was more like a criminal investigation than literary criticism.
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There's still a very lively literary criticism scene in Australia: It's a country of enormous numbers of readers, and a lot of them are reading the New York Times, so that was really exciting.
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"Her book exploded the tidy conceit in which I had been schooled: that literary criticism and social politics were things apart from one another," Rebecca Mead wrote in an afterword to the new edition.
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These prizes — ranging in value from $15,000 to $30,000 — are designed to support writers working on "in-depth political, social, economic and scientific commentary, long-form arts and literary criticism and the intellectual essay."
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Nor do homosexuals suffer from an "emotional-psychological illness," as he casually mentions — for this was an era in which such public slurs were chic and permissible, especially in the guise of literary criticism.
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The first consists of five profiles; the second collects reportage that looks at the way we speak, variously defined, and how it reveals (often unpleasantly) our natures; the third, and longest, showcases Malcolm's literary criticism.
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So while his literary criticism can be hard going if you're not familiar with the exact book he's discussing, his art criticism is wildly compelling even if you've never heard of the artist he's writing about.
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He was also a decent scholar, something that he tapped later, but in "The Pythons" he recalled a moment in the library when, parsing some literary criticism, he realized that comedy and performing would take precedence.
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The key, if there is a key, to finding the source of Malcolm's dedication to this complexity arrives at the end of "Nobody's Looking at You," in its largest section, devoted to Malcolm's superb literary criticism.
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"Last year we presented James Wood, the literary critic, for his novel, and I think in that case it is useful for the reader to be like, 'Oh, this isn't a work of literary criticism,'" says Piehl.
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And as to whether the density of the jargon (which I have spared the reader) is deliberately fashioned for an air of profundity, the charge is as unnecessary as it is against the lingo of literary criticism.
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His sentences are crisp and clean and well balanced, and when he writes literary criticism, he can be deeply compelling: His ode to the writer Bill Vollmann, "A Friendship," is warm and funny and insightful all at once.
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Steven Marcus, a Columbia College professor who transformed literary criticism into a lens on history and society by revealing a subculture of Victorian pornography and psychoanalyzing characters in Charles Dickens's novels, died on April 19953 in a Manhattan hospital.
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Barbara Lounsberry has done for Woolf's diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf's novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: It takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it.
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Clearly a man for whom life without literature is tantamount to life without material nourishment, Wood brings to the practice of literary criticism "the ardor of the artist" — the quality John Keats proclaimed most necessary to the making of all art.
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Far removed from all this, and from most reality, we have academic literary criticism, now reducing literature to fodder for pseudoscientific cultural studies, taking its first duty to be the discovery of ways in which books can cause crushing personal offense.
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After brief stints teaching at Indiana University and City College of New York, he won a fellowship to Cambridge University, where he conducted research on a Fulbright fellowship and published his first literary criticism, in The Partisan Review and Commentary.
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If you weren't inclined, after that paragraph, to read the next 22019,250 words of Lockwood's article — you would call it a takedown were its thinking not so fine and its comedy not so purposeful — nothing will get you to read literary criticism.
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I'm simplifying years of painstaking and unnecessary literary criticism to make a point here: a mash-up of famous Vine clips set to the "Blessings" reprise from Chance the Rapper's third mixtape, Coloring Book, has moved me to tears at my desk.
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"One of the central purposes of Book Marks is to draw attention to all the great critical writing about books happening in the country today, to create an easily searchable resource that reflects the current state of literary criticism," Diamond told me.
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Our recommended books this week take on the big topics, from James Wood's collection of literary criticism and personal essays to Ann Napolitano's novel about a plane crash to Daniel Susskind's look at the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor force.
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Gornick's new book is part memoiristic collage, part literary criticism, yet it is also an urgent argument that rereading offers the opportunity not just to correct and adjust one's recollection of a book but to correct and adjust one's perception of oneself.
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But I know I bring baggage to every single piece of writing I produce, whether the writing is personal narrative, historical fiction, literary criticism or reportage: I bring the specifically deforming influence of my own history, my hobbyhorse theories and my fascinations.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This list of complaints is meant to argue that literary criticism should be critical just for the sake of it, giving an unflinching excoriation of a book's content or a cold-eyed assessment of what it lacks.
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He was performing a kind of freestyle literary criticism, turning a scene that's often played for pathos into a funny, sparky one about a woman with spunk and originality encountering an unremarkable man, manipulating him a little to get what she wants.
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As Maya Jasanoff, professor of British and imperial history at Harvard University, argues in a new book that blends history and literary criticism, Conrad wrote "at the turn of the 20th century" of many of the global forces and perils that afflict the world today.
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His friend, who is more familiar, not simply with politics but also with criminality and violence, is also based on a real person; they met the year Mishra moved from Allahabad to Benares and fell in love himself with the literary criticism of Edmund Wilson.
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" As the decade goes on, the exigencies of earning will help to produce a collection of essays of feminist literary criticism, "Seduction and Betrayal" (21976), as well as her best-known novel, "Sleepless Nights" (21975), a book, she tells Lowell, that "will save my life.
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Indeed "The Second Plane" is such a weak, risible and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
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"Literary criticism is still very elitist, very old, white, and male," said Kayleigh Donaldson, a former YA blogger who reviewed Hale's first novel and is one of very few people willing to talk on the record about why she opposes the publication of Hale's essay collection.
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Although she wrote books, she specialized in essays, and much of her most influential work — including perhaps her most famous piece, "Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism" (21893) — was published in academic and literary journals.
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Although she wrote books, she specialized in essays, and much of her most influential work — including perhaps her most famous piece, "Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism" (21893) — was published in academic and literary journals.
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This disciplinary cross-pollination means that textbooks on clinical practice and the most outlandish psychoanalytic literary criticism—like, say, the professor I once had who insisted that you could tell how important Walter Pater was to Virginia Woolf because Virginia Woolf never once wrote about Walter Pater—are sisters.
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The volumes make clear that it was Kenner who coaxed Davenport into print, while Davenport was the source of many of the key ideas, and even some of the words, of Kenner's 19643 masterpiece, The Pound Era, one of the greatest works of literary criticism of the last century.
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Proust spent precious time there with his family, and it was here that he began to structure his memories, transforming the lives of his family and friends and organizing the notebooks begun in 1908 as a series of essays against the literary criticism of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve.
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Divided into three sections—"Coventry," which is made up of personal essays; "A Tragic Pastime," essays on being an artist or writer; and "Classics and Bestsellers," which comprises several short pieces of literary criticism—the book feels like a step backward, particularly because it contains no new pieces.
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In 1985, he became the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for literary criticism for his historical survey of Japanese diaries, later published in English as "Travelers of the Ages," a book inspired by the bloody wartime journals he encountered while serving in the Navy.
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At its most engaging, "Finding Babel" doubles as literary criticism, as when Mr. Malaev-Babel rehearses his grandfather's play "Maria" with actors in Paris — he meets with Marina Vlady, the star of Jean-Luc Godard's "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her" — and teases out the drama's political themes.
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Howe's " My Emily Dickinson "—a quasi-biography with the imaginative latitude of a poem and the intellectual reach of the best literary criticism—established for our time the new terms of Dickinson's reputation, even as it advanced Howe's own "American aesthetic of uncertainty," which shuttles among forms, genres, and states of matter.
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In the episode called "Thirteen Ways of Looking at 'Star Wars'" — a compendium of outlandish and interesting interpretations of the movies — Mr. Sunstein muses on the nature of conspiracy theories, riffing in the space of a few paragraphs on Lee Harvey Oswald, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and "The Bible Code" to no evident purpose.
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If literature, as William Giraldi writes in "American Audacity," is "the one religion worth having," then Giraldi is our most tenacious revivalist preacher, his sermons galvanized by a righteous exhortative energy, a mastery of the sacred texts and — unique in contemporary literary criticism — an enthusiasm for moralizing in defense of high standards.
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In 1992, she published "Playing in the Dark," a work of literary criticism that gave ballast to the emerging field of critical whiteness studies, an academic discipline that put much-needed words to America's willful failure to understand "whiteness" as a category of identity with its own twisted histories and need for understanding.
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This collection of 60 essays boasts a vast range of work, from pleasantly inconsequential bits of fluff like his account of a night in London for Time Out London (nothing happens, but it doesn't happen ever so charmingly) to thoughtful and thorough literary criticism to a harrowing first-person account of a Syrian refugee camp.
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If you: have ever been either bewitched or bewildered by Shakespeare's work; are kinky or have a fetish, or are merely curious about sexuality; or enjoy personal essay as well as magical realism and literary criticism, then Jillian Keenan's Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love is for you.
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"Overeducated but functionally illiterate, members of a gang, a pack, who do their drive-by shootings in print," reviewers seemed to deny her the authority of her personal experience of rape, prostitution, and domestic violence, which they did not understand, and to wave aside the literary criticism in the book, which they also did not understand.
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For a book so self-effacing and respectful of the words of others, "Landmarks" is wildly ambitious, part outdoor adventure story, part literary criticism, part philosophical disquisition, part linguistic excavation project, part mash note — a celebration of nature, of reading, of writing, of language and of people who love those things as much as the author does.
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His major published works—"The Armed Vision" (1948), a comparative study of modern methods of literary criticism, and "The Tangled Bank" (1962), on the literary strategies of Marx, Freud, Darwin, and Sir James Frazer—were grand projects of intellectual synthesis, and both had taken on a dusty, doomed, Casaubonish quality by the time he completed them.
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In The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Henry Louis Gates defines signifying, in the black vernacular sense, as the art of moving "freely between two discursive universes" — "the white linguistic realm," Eurocentric and self-consciously literary, and a parallel black dimension that wrests the tool of language from the master's hand and turns it to its own uses, be they political, playful, subversive, or outright seditious.
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