A Family That Fights by Sharon Chester Bernstein

A Family That Fights by Sharon Chester Bernstein

Including pieces by creative critics as varied as Anne Carson, Jacques Derrida, Geoff Dyer, H l ne Cixous, Ali Smith, and John Cage, this anthology and guide celebrates the formal and intellectual inventiveness of works which also demonstrate a deep fidelity to the writing or art they address. The Anthology is of interest to all students, teachers and critics of literature and creative writing, and especially those students who are required to write critical essays. All 14 texts included respond innovatively to the question: How do we write criticism? As examples of academic critical writing they are all sympathetic to works whose aim is to change the ways in which we see and describe our world.

Key Features
Unique as an anthology of and guide to creative critical writing
Demonstrates a range of ways to write critically and creatively
Extensive introduction & explanatory headnotes to each text

Contents
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)'; H l ne 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 Sedgwick, 'Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl'; Ali Smith, 'Green'; John Wilkinson, 'Imperfect Pitch'; Sarah Wood, 'Anew Again'.

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ISBN 13	9780807522486
ISBN 10	0807522481
Title	A Family That Fights
Author	Sharon Chester Bernstein
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Albert Whitman & Company
Year published	1991-01-01
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.