The critic as amateur / edited by Saikat Majumdar and Aarthi Vadde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Majumdar, Saikat, editor.

Vadde, Aarthi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Critics.

Amateurism.

Physical Description:

x, 279 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019]

Summary:

"Can the criticism of literature and culture really be professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even as it evolves into a highly specialized activity enshrined in the university? The Critic as Amateur crystallizes the debates and desires around amateurism, which have begun to stir afresh in literary studies. While the 'amateur impulse' has always been in play in the literary arena beyond the academy - in the journalistic world of magazines, reviewing, radio and TV discussions of literature - the nature and meaning of that impulse remain to be explained. This volume, the first on the critic as amateur, weds currents of thought in heretofore distinct conversations about the future of literary studies, the public humanities, university labor, and new media. The Critic as Amateur takes criticism out of the university and onto the airwaves, into the burgeoning culture of cinema, into the small independent press, and into the unregulated expanse of social media. It is a vital book for readers invested in the disciplinary history and future of literary studies. It is also a crucial resource for those who wish to understand how criticism becomes a public discourse and how it exemplifies the role of the humanities in the 20th and 21st centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : criticism for the whole person / Aarthi Vadde with Saikat Majumda

In praise of amateurism / Derek Attridge

In the shadow of the archive / Tom Lutz

"It's all very suggestive, but it isn't scholarship" / Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Beyond professionalism : the pasts and futures of creative criticism / Peter D. McDonald

Leavis, Richards, and the duplicators / Christopher Hilliard

Pramatha Chaudhuri : the critic as rasik / Rosinka Chaudhuri

The sophisticated amateur : Vernon Lee versus the vital liars / Mimi Winick

Dorothy Richardson and close up : amateur and professional exchanges in film culture / Zlatina Nikolova and Chris Townsend

New judgements : literary criticism on air / Emily C. Bloom

The small press and the feminist critic / Melanie Micir

Epilogue : new, interesting, and original : the undergraduate as amateur / Kara Wittman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Critic as amateur

ISBN:

9781501341403

1501341405

9781501341410

1501341413

OCLC:

1056692351