Edward Said and the Authority of Literary Criticism

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Vandeviver, Nicolas (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature .; Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial criticism, in order to reveal how the groundbreaking author of Orientalism turned literary criticism into a form of political intervention. Tracing Said's shifting conceptions of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Cold reading
• 3. Beyond Formalism
• 4. Beginning Anew
• 5. Disorienting Vision
• 6. Conclusion.