The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture |
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Author:
| Gunn, Giles |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-504161-3 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1987 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $34.50 |
Book Description:
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Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson, and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Part critical analysis, part philosophical argument, part literary and cultural history, this book provides a carefully delineated vision of what...
More DescriptionGiles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson, and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Part critical analysis, part philosophical argument, part literary and cultural history, this book provides a carefully delineated vision of what criticism actively engaged in its society can accomplish.