The Critic as Amateur (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Majumdar, Saikat; Vadde, Aarthi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves into a highly specialized discipline enshrined in the university?

The Critic as Amateur brings leading and emerging scholars together to explore the role of amateurism in literary studies. While untrained reading has always been central to arenas beyond the academy - book clubs, libraries, used bookstores - its role in the making of professional criticism is often disavowed or dismissed. This volume, the first on the critic as amateur, restores the links between expertise, autodidactic learning and hobbyist pleasure by weaving literary criticism in and out of the university.

Our contributors take criticism to the airwaves, through the culture of early cinema, the small press, the undergraduate classroom and extracurricular writing groups. Canonical critics are considered alongside feminist publishers and queer intellectuals. The Critic as Amateur is a vital book for readers invested in the disciplinary history of literary studies and the public role of the humanities. It is also a crucial resource for anyone interested in how literary criticism becomes a richly diverse yet shared discourse in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501341427
• Artikelnr.: 57501760

Autorenporträt

Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India. He is the author of numerous books, including Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (2013), College: Pathways of Possibility (2018), and the novel The Scent of God (2019). Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University, USA. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 (2016), winner of the 2018 Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: "Criticism for the Whole Person" Aarthi Vadde (Duke University
USA) with Saikat Majumdar (Ashoka University
India) Part I: THE AMATEUR IMPULSE 1. In Praise of Amateurism Derek Attridge (University of York
UK) 2. In the Shadow of the Archive Tom Lutz (Founder and Editor of Los Angeles Review of Books) 3. "It's All Very Suggestive
but It Isn't Scholarship" Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (University of Arizona
USA) 4. Beyond Professionalism: The Pasts and Futures of Creative Criticism Peter D. McDonald (Oxford University
UK) Part II: THE AMATEUR IN THE AGE OF PROFESSIONALIZATION 5. Leavis
Richards
and the Duplicators Christopher Hilliard (University of Sydney
Australia) 6. The Critic as Rasik: Pramatha Chaudhuri
Tagore
and the New Language of Literary Writing Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences
Calcutta
India) 7. The Sophisticated Amateur: Vernon Lee versus the Vital Liars Mimi Winick (Virginia Commonwealth University
USA) Part III: THE CRITIC AS AMATEUR IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA 8. Dorothy Richardson and Close Up: Amateur and Professional Exchanges in Film Culture Zlatina Nikolova & Chris Townsend (Royal Holloway
University of London
UK) 9. New Judgments: Literary Criticism on Air Emily C. Bloom (Columbia University
USA) 10. The Small Press and the Feminist Critic Melanie Micir (Washington University in St. Louis
USA) EPILOGUE: New
Interesting
and Original: The Undergraduate as Amateur Kara Wittman (Pomona College
USA) List of Contributors Bibliography Index