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- Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays
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- Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays
- Title
- Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781558497870
- ISBN
- 9781558497870
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 28/02/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.9in
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- 9in
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- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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This collection makes the case for literary criticism as an informed, aggressive, personal, and often humorous response to writers and writing. An unrepentant academic, William Pritchard nonetheless finds himself looking vainly, in much current professional study of literature, for what he sees as criticism 's central task. This involves in part, an attentiveness to the performing voice e of the novelist, poetry, or essayist under discussion. to bring out this quality, the critic must exploit, with invention and intrepidity, his or her own responsive voice--must talk back to the work of art. The essays, all of them about English and American writers, are arranged chronologically, beginning with Shakespeare, an Edmund Burke, and proceeding through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to end with contemporaries like Kinglsey Amis, V. S. Naipaul, and Doris Lessing. Pritchard writes with equal authority about poetry and fiction; the collection also includes assessments of critics such as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Carlyle, Ford Madox Ford and R. P. Blackmur.
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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1558497870
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9781558497870
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Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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"As demonstrated in these essays, Pritchard's sympathetic, kinetic engagement with the canon has always distinguished him from other voices of the academy."--Choice"These essays are responses of the best sort--opinionated, informed, highly articulate, but never, ever pompous. . . . Pritchard is a wonderful writer."--Sven Birkerts"William H. Pritchard is one of those rare academics with whom it would be fun to discuss literature off campus. When he asks, 'How deep should close reading go?' and confesses that the very mention of Saussure 'causes my consciousness to glaze over,' you know you won't be held hostage to a lot of theoretical cant. And when he reminds you of useful readings by Northrop Frye, Richard Poirier, Yvor Winters, Randall Jarrell, and A. C. Bradley, it is clear that Pritchard's rejection of what he calls a 'namable approach' to literary analysis is far from naive. For although he regards such critics' 'literary motives and practices' as preferable to the 'fiefdoms and bailiwicks' of more politicized stances, he is chary of romanticizing the critical past. For a main course in this bookish meal won might turn to Pritchard's title essay, a meaty, sustaining reflection upon the difficulty in engaging with the often elusive work of this poet 'who is much of the time not speaking to me.' Dessert could proove a difficult choice: a savory critique of Doris Lessing, perhaps, or a trifling but delicious reappraisal of Julian Symons. Pritchard services up a tempting and palatable blend of the erudite and the informal, an antidote to his own complaint that modern literary commentary 'has absolutely severed itself from being of interest to anyone not exclusively professional."--New York Review of Books, "As demonstrated in these essays, Pritchard's sympathetic, kinetic engagement with the canon has always distinguished him from other voices of the academy."-- Choice "These essays are responses of the best sort--opinionated, informed, highly articulate, but never, ever pompous. . . . Pritchard is a wonderful writer."--Sven Birkerts "William H. Pritchard is one of those rare academics with whom it would be fun to discuss literature off campus. When he asks, 'How deep should close reading go?' and confesses that the very mention of Saussure 'causes my consciousness to glaze over,' you know you won't be held hostage to a lot of theoretical cant. And when he reminds you of useful readings by Northrop Frye, Richard Poirier, Yvor Winters, Randall Jarrell, and A. C. Bradley, it is clear that Pritchard's rejection of what he calls a 'namable approach' to literary analysis is far from naive. For although he regards such critics' 'literary motives and practices' as preferable to the 'fiefdoms and bailiwicks' of more politicized stances, he is chary of romanticizing the critical past. For a main course in this bookish meal won might turn to Pritchard's title essay, a meaty, sustaining reflection upon the difficulty in engaging with the often elusive work of this poet 'who is much of the time not speaking to me.' Dessert could proove a difficult choice: a savory critique of Doris Lessing, perhaps, or a trifling but delicious reappraisal of Julian Symons. Pritchard services up a tempting and palatable blend of the erudite and the informal, an antidote to his own complaint that modern literary commentary 'has absolutely severed itself from being of interest to anyone not exclusively professional."-- New York Review of Books, "As demonstrated in these essays, Pritchard's sympathetic, kinetic engagement with the canon has always distinguished him from other voices of the academy."--Choice "These essays are responses of the best sort--opinionated, informed, highly articulate, but never, ever pompous. . . . Pritchard is a wonderful writer."--Sven Birkerts "William H. Pritchard is one of those rare academics with whom it would be fun to discuss literature off campus. When he asks, 'How deep should close reading go?' and confesses that the very mention of Saussure 'causes my consciousness to glaze over,' you know you won't be held hostage to a lot of theoretical cant. And when he reminds you of useful readings by Northrop Frye, Richard Poirier, Yvor Winters, Randall Jarrell, and A. C. Bradley, it is clear that Pritchard's rejection of what he calls a 'namable approach' to literary analysis is far from naive. For although he regards such critics' 'literary motives and practices' as preferable to the 'fiefdoms and bailiwicks' of more politicized stances, he is chary of romanticizing the critical past. For a main course in this bookish meal won might turn to Pritchard's title essay, a meaty, sustaining reflection upon the difficulty in engaging with the often elusive work of this poet 'who is much of the time not speaking to me.' Dessert could proove a difficult choice: a savory critique of Doris Lessing, perhaps, or a trifling but delicious reappraisal of Julian Symons. Pritchard services up a tempting and palatable blend of the erudite and the informal, an antidote to his own complaint that modern literary commentary 'has absolutely severed itself from being of interest to anyone not exclusively professional."--New York Review of Books
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
American / General, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey Decimal
820.9
Dewey Edition
21
Genre
Literary Criticism
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