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Hardcover. Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This volume brings together a range of writings that seek to radically re-imagine the often pale figure of the literary critic. Editor(s): Schad, John; Tearle, Dr. Oliver. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings together a range of writings that seek to radically re-imagine the often pale figure of the literary critic. In doing so we here glimpse a host of unfamiliar figures from the critic as pedestrian to the critic as suicide through the critic as revivalist and even the critic as bodger. The result is a book that seeks to locate the truly critical critic -- or, to be paradoxical, the critic as critic; the critic who is a ... Read more
Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings together a range of writings that seek to radically re-imagine the often pale figure of the literary critic. In doing so we here glimpse a host of unfamiliar figures from the critic as pedestrian to the critic as suicide through the critic as revivalist and even the critic as bodger. The result is a book that seeks to locate the truly critical critic -- or, to be paradoxical, the critic as critic; the critic who is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193423
SKU
V9781845193423
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About
John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at Loughborough University. He is the author of The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors and Victorians in Theory, the editor of Dickens Refigured, Thomas Hardy's A Laodicean, and Writing the Bodies of Christ; and co-editor of life.after.theory. He is currently completing a book on Clough. Oliver Tearle is a research student at Loughborough ... Read more
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