LEADER 04130nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910809961903321 005 20240416192812.0 010 $a1-282-85464-X 010 $a9786612854644 010 $a0-7735-6674-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773566743 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713651 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258131 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247966 035 $a(PQKB)11452611 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400764 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141763 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285464 035 $a(OCoLC)929121261 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/khp3zx 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400764 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331092 035 $a(DE-B1597)656929 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773566743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245374 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713651 100 $a19990305d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRandom walks $eessays in elective criticism /$fDavid Solway 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal ;$aBuffalo $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1997 215 $axxi, 224 p. ;$d23 cm 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-1679-4 311 $a0-7735-1648-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tForeword -- $tRandom Walks -- $tPart One -- $tNever on Sontag -- $tCulling and Dereading, or the Pursuit of Absence -- $tThe Autoerotic Text -- $tOn the Essay, or the Jubilation of the Lambda -- $tThe End of Poetry -- $tThe Word and the Stone -- $tFellatiotics: The Relation between Surface and Depth -- $tNotes on Lucianic Satire -- $tPart Two -- $tThe Trial As Jewish Joke -- $tFraming Layton -- $tPronominal Debris -- $tIntoxicated Words: Language in Shakespeare?s Late Romances -- $tDukes and Duchesses: A Minority View of ?My Last Duchess? -- $tJoyces?s Choices -- $tSwift and Sartorism -- $tNotes 330 $aThe first section of the book develops Solway's approach to literature, starting from the assumption that genuine criticism requires the intellectual freedom to range at will across the literary landscape rather than restricting one's direction based on what is current, fashionable, or politically correct. Solway argues that advocating a theoretical school - postmodernism, poststructuralism, semiotics, new historicism, Marxist revisionism, or queer theory - generally involves abandoning the real critical project, which is the discovery of one's own undetermined motives, dispositions, and interests as reflected in the secret mirrors embedded in literary texts. Instead Solway pursues what he calls elective criticism, writing that enables the critical writer to freely discover his or her own identity - a concept that he claims cannot reasonably be diluted, relinquished, or deconstructed. In the second section Solway practices what he preaches, exploring a wide range of authors and subjects. His essays include an analysis of Franz Kafka's The Trial as a Jewish joke, a personal memoir of Irving Layton, an interpretation of Erin Moure's "Pronouns on the Main," an examination of language in William Shakespeare's romances, a reading of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" that is sympathetic to the Duke, an assertion that James Joyce has more in common with the traditional novelist than with the professional, (post-)modern alienator, and an exploration of Jonathan Swift's sartorial imagery that contends that form is the source of substantive identity. 606 $aCriticism 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aCriticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a801/.95 700 $aSolway$b David$01605141 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809961903321 996 $aRandom walks$94111713 997 $aUNINA