The Character of Criticism by Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world, it demands, in other words, to be read as a discourse of character. This work unfolds the complex and indirect ways in which human character is expressed in criticism.Geoffrey Galt Harpham is President and Director of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. His many books include On the Grotesque, The Ascetic Imperative inCulture and Criticism, Getting It Right: Language,Literature, and Ethics,One of Us: The Mastery of JosephConrad, Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the JustSociety, and, most recently, Language Alone: The CriticalFetish of Modernity, also published by Routledge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415971324 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415971322 |
| Title | The Character of Criticism |
| Author | Geoffrey Galt Harpham |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2006-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 204 |
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