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The task of the critic : poetics, philosophy, and religion / Henry Sussman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sussman, Henry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- Criticism (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Today's critic must be something of a philosopher as well as a poet. Yet her workremains above all that of the close reader, and the emergence of the valuesembodied by the close reader to stand alongside those of the philosopher andthe poet may be one of the most significant intellectual developments to emergein the post-World War II years.
- Contents:
- The task of the critic : a game of registers
- Prolegomena to any present and future language poetry
- Walter, the critic
- Between the registers : The Arcades Project, the Talmud, and Glas
- Deterritorializing the text : flow theory and deconstruction
- Derrida as critic : a Joycean odyssey
- The fourth Abrahamic religion?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4850-X
- OCLC:
- 741709967
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