The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture

by Giles Gunn

2020-11-24 16:08:04

Giles Gunn''s important new work is at once a provocative defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated ... Read more
Giles Gunn''s important new work is at once a provocative defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed bystructuralist and post-structuralist theory. Including detailed discussions of such thinkers as Kenneth Burke, Clifford Geertz, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Rorty, Trilling, and Wilson, Gunn challenges the assumptions of modern criticism with a revised interpretation of pragmatism and its criticallegacy. Part critical analysis, part philosophical argument, part literary and cultural history, this work is a carefully delineated vision of what criticism actively engaged in its society can accomplish. Less

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File size7.95 X 5.39 X 0.47 in
Print pages240
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 1, 1989
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195056426

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