Conor Mccarthy

The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise, informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780521864534
• ISBN-10: 0521864534
• Artikelnr.: 30364908

Autorenporträt

Conor McCarthy is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: beginning with Edward Said: history, biography, criticism
2. Influences: phenomenology, philology, Marxism, poststructuralism
3. Works: Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975)
Orientalism (1978)
The Question of Palestine (1979)
The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983)
Culture and Imperialism (1993)
4. Reception
Guide to further reading
Index.

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1. Introduction: beginning with Edward Said: history, biography, criticism; 2. Influences: phenomenology, philology, Marxism, poststructuralism; 3. Works: Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975); Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); 4. Reception; Guide to further reading; Index.

Rezensionen

"Conor McCarthy presents a lucid and highly readable overview of the oeuvre of one of the major intellectuals of our time."
--College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies