| Reviews |
| - 'finely edited and spirited collection of essays on the limitations and possibilites of literary criticism ... In these essays the author is alive and well, aestheic knowledge is distinguished from science, there is a humanistic understanding of consciousness and a notion of purpose, meaning and aesthetic delight.' - Mary Tomlinson, THES 5/11/99
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| Description | | - A range of contributors including the novelists Doris Lessing and David Lodge, and leading academics
- Clear and up-to-date discussion of current issues in literary theory, criticism, by leading thinkers in the field
| | This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Discussion ranges widely with contributions from outside the literary academy, including essays by the novelists Doris Lessing and
David Lodge. All the essays are concerned with what literature, and therefore criticism, is or aims to be. Several are concerned with a specifically aesthetic way of knowing, the value of which lies in its very resistance to scientific models of knowledge. The answers about how literature can resist such models, and what kinds of knowing best respond to the distinctive nature of aesthetic
experience, are varied. The collection also addresses the consequences for literary criticism of the politically-driven critique which has recently undermined traditional concepts of truth and knowledge in both arts and sciences. And finally it asks whether professional criticism should be a deepened extension of the sense-making activity of ordinary intelligent reading, or whether it should be a
purely objective study, analogous to other scientific forms of knowledge studied in an academic context. |
Readership: Literary critics, intellectual historians, sociologists, philosophers of science, teachers of cultural studies, postgraduate and second and third year undergraduate students
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
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David Fuller and Patricia Waugh
Part I: Criticism and the History and Philosophy of Science
2.
Revising the Two Cultures Debate: Science, Literature and Value
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Patricia Waugh
3.
Science, Interpretation and Criticism
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David Cooper
4.
Evidence-based and Evidence-free Generalisations: a Tale of Two Cultures
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Raymond Tallis
5.
Science and the Self: Lacan's doctrine of the Signifier
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Jacques Berthoud
Part II: Criticism and the Aesthetic
6.
Poetry as Literary Criticism
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Michael O'Neill
7.
Criticism and Creation
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David Lodge
8.
Writing Autobiography
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Doris Lessing
9.
Beneath Interpretation: Intention and the Experience of Literature
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Paul H. Fry
10.
Poetry, Music and the Sacred
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David Fuller
Part III: Criticism and the Ethical
11.
The Aesthetic, the Cognitive and the Ethical: Criticism and Discursive Responsibility
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Séan Burke
12.
Literature and the Crisis in the Concept of the University
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Timothy Clark
13.
The Metaphysics of Modernism: Aesthetic Myth and the Myth of the Aesthetic
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Michael Bell
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by David Fuller, Reader in English and
Patricia Waugh, Professor of English, both at University of Durham
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