A future for criticism

by Belsey, Catherine

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Title Statements

Full title :A future for criticism / Catherine Belsey.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Malden, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 143 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781405169578, 1405169575, 9781405169561, 1405169567, 9781444393392, 1444393391
oclc:ocn658117416
LC Classification:PN3331
Dewey Decimal:809.3

1.Pleasure: Have we neglected it? -- Fiction for pleasure -- The case of tragedy -- The English curriculum -- Cries of joy -- `Aesthetic' pleasure -- The Pleasure of the Text -- Modernist unpleasure -- Gaiety -- 2.Piety: Haven't we overdone it? -- Criticism on the defensive -- Classic defences -- The advent of theory -- Law -- The superego -- Neurosis -- Complacency -- Culture and Anarchy -- Artefacts and pleasure -- Critical writing -- 3.Biography: Friend or foe? -- Life and art -- Biography in theory -- What the authors say -- New Historicism -- Shakespeare's life -- Fact or fiction? -- Shakespeare's memory -- Romance -- The death of the reader -- 4.Realism: Do we overrate it? -- A disputed value -- The default genre -- Imitation -- Insight -- Totalization -- Suspicion -- Objections -- The radical view -- Recuperation -- A counter-example -- 5.Culture: What do we mean by it? -- Cultural criticism -- Twin perils -- Culture as meanings -- Meanwhile, in Paris -- Anthropology -- Another culture -- Perils circumvented -- Work to do -- 6.History: Do we do it justice? -- Official usage -- Cultural difference -- History and criticism -- Customary knowledge -- Dissonance -- An example --…

Subjects

Critical theory Criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Critique Fiction -- History and criticism literary criticism Literature -- Theory Literaturkritik Literaturkritik -- Geschichte 2001 ff Literaturtheorie Litteraturkritik Roman -- Histoire et critique