Creative criticism : an anthology and guide / edited by Stephen Benson and Clare Connors. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Roland Barthes, from A 'Lover's Discourse: Fragments' -- John Cage, from 'Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing' -- Anne Carson, 'Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)' -- Hélène Cixous, 'Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner's taking off' -- Jacques Derrida, 'Aphorism Countertime' -- Geoff Dyer, from 'Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence' -- Benjamin Friedlander, 'Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism' -- Peter Gizzi, 'Correspondences of the Book' -- Kevin Kopelson, 'Music Lessons' -- Denise Riley, 'Lyric Selves' -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 'Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl' -- Ali Smith, 'Green' -- John Wilkinson, 'Imperfect Pitch' -- Sarah Wood, 'Anew Again'.

Too often academic critical writing seems to annihilate what it analyses. Too often it brings pre-packaged language to bear on works whose whole essence and aim is to change the ways in which we see and describe our world. How, then, to write criticism? This text gathers together who strive to find answers to this dilemma.



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Criticism.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.


Electronic Books.

PN81 / .C743 2014