| The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture Contributor(s): Gunn, Giles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195056426 ISBN-13: 9780195056426 Publisher: Oxford University Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1988 Annotation: 'An elegantly written and, at points, passionately argued examination of the relation of criticism to culture in the modern world. The strengths of the book are many: it is vigorously argued, immensely learned, and cogent.'Bryan Wolf, Yale University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 306.409 |
| LCCN: 86-12365 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.44" W x 8.08" (0.59 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 by structuralist 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 critical legacy. 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. |
