Edward Said and the Authority of Literary Criticism

• Main Author: Vandeviver, Nicolas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

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