The Critic as Amateur
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4140-3 (ISBN)
The Critic as Amateur brings leading and emerging scholars together to explore the role of amateurism in literary studies. While untrained reading has always been central to arenas beyond the academy – book clubs, libraries, used bookstores – its role in the making of professional criticism is often disavowed or dismissed. This volume, the first on the critic as amateur, restores the links between expertise, autodidactic learning and hobbyist pleasure by weaving literary criticism in and out of the university.
Our contributors take criticism to the airwaves, through the culture of early cinema, the small press, the undergraduate classroom and extracurricular writing groups. Canonical critics are considered alongside feminist publishers and queer intellectuals. The Critic as Amateur is a vital book for readers invested in the disciplinary history of literary studies and the public role of the humanities. It is also a crucial resource for anyone interested in how literary criticism becomes a richly diverse yet shared discourse in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India. He is the author of numerous books, including Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (2013), College: Pathways of Possibility (2018), and the novel The Scent of God (2019). Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University, USA. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 (2016), winner of the 2018 Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Criticism for the Whole Person”
Aarthi Vadde (Duke University, USA) with Saikat Majumdar (Ashoka University, India)
Part I: THE AMATEUR IMPULSE
1. In Praise of Amateurism
Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
2. In the Shadow of the Archive
Tom Lutz (Founder and Editor of Los Angeles Review of Books)
3. "It’s All Very Suggestive, but It Isn’t Scholarship"
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (University of Arizona, USA)
4. Beyond Professionalism: The Pasts and Futures of Creative Criticism
Peter D. McDonald (Oxford University, UK)
Part II: THE AMATEUR IN THE AGE OF PROFESSIONALIZATION
5. Leavis, Richards, and the Duplicators
Christopher Hilliard (University of Sydney, Australia)
6. The Critic as Rasik: Pramatha Chaudhuri, Tagore, and the New Language of Literary Writing
Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)
7. The Sophisticated Amateur: Vernon Lee versus the Vital Liars
Mimi Winick (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Part III: THE CRITIC AS AMATEUR IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA
8. Dorothy Richardson and Close Up: Amateur and Professional Exchanges in Film Culture
Zlatina Nikolova & Chris Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
9. New Judgments: Literary Criticism on Air
Emily C. Bloom (Columbia University, USA)
10. The Small Press and the Feminist Critic
Melanie Micir (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
EPILOGUE: New, Interesting, and Original: The Undergraduate as Amateur
Kara Wittman (Pomona College, USA)
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 306 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-4140-5 / 1501341405 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-4140-3 / 9781501341403 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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