UID:
edocfu_9959677589902883
Format:
1 online resource (321 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-1292-1
,
0-8223-9841-9
Content:
For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts—above all, "objectivity"—seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life.Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume—including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim—respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result—which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"—maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism.Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar
Note:
Border crossing as method and motif in contemporary American writing, or, how Freud helped me case the joint / D.P. Freedman -- Me and my shadow / J. Tompkins -- Beyond literary Darwinism : women's voices and critical discourse / O. Frey -- "Everyday use" : my sojourn at Parchman Farm / C.B. Torsney -- Excerpts from letters to friends / S. Koppelman -- Social circles : being a report on J. Hillis Miller's campus visitation / L.R. Robertson -- Touchstones and bedrocks : learning the stories we need / V. Ekanger -- Creative voices : women reading and women's writing / F.M. Zauhar -- Breaking silence : The woman warrior / S.N. Garner -- Different silences / T. Yamamoto -- "What's in a name?" : some meanings of blackness / H.L. Gates, Jr. -- Poetry and the age : "A girl in a library" to Randall Jarrell / S.M. Brown -- My friend, Joyce Carol Oates / B. Daly -- Somebody must say these things : an essay for my mother / M. Graulich -- The scarlet brewer and the voice of the colonized / S. Geok-lin Lim -- Dividing fences / C.S. Taylor -- What do women really mean? Thoughts on women's diaries and lives / S. Bunkers -- Between the Medusa and the abyss : reading Jane Eyre, reading myself / E. Brown -- Rereading Middlemarch, rereading myself / P. Carlton -- The crippling of the third world : Shiva Naipaul's heritage / R. Kanhai-Brunton -- Penelope's web / G. Griffin -- "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around" : reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass / D. Hubbard -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn and me : a duography / Kendall -- In between abject & object : the mourning sickness of the expectant mother, or, three movements of the blues in B minor / D. Beckelman -- La Ronde of children and mothers / J. Balén.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-06745-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1285-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822398417
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398417
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822398417
