The culture of criticism and the criticism of culture / / Giles Gunn

• Autore: Gunn Giles B.
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1987; ©1987
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.40973
• Soggetto topico: Criticism - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; I: Irregular Metaphysics and the Criticism of Culture; 1. Introduction; 2. The Moral Imagination in Modern American Criticism; 3. The Challenge of the ""New New Criticism""; 4. Pragmatism as Critical Antidote: The Allopathic Medicine of Kenneth Burke; II: The Culture of Criticism and the Moral Imagination; 5. The Semiotics of Culture and the Diagnostics of Criticism: Clifford Geertz and the Moral Imagination; 6. The Humanities and Their Discontents: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Recovery of Alterity; 7. American Studies as Cultural Criticism ; 8. Recent Criticism and the Sediments of the SacredNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: The aim of this book is to challenge the assumptions made by the structuralist and post-structuralist schools of literary criticism. It defends and attempts to re-evaluate the kind of moral reflection associated with the critical legacy of such writers as Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson.
• Titolo autorizzato: The culture of criticism and the criticism of culture
• ISBN: 1-280-52356-5; 0-19-802118-6; 9786610523566; 0-19-536355-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451132503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II