... criticism reader-response criticism twenty-first-century fiction COLUMNS THE CRITIC AS HUMAN BEING A Response to Mikhail Epstein Adir H. Petel Literary critics are expected to know everything and feel...

... the meaning of that painting even if no others had done so. Newman’s prescience did not endear him to those who, preferring their own explanations, assumed an avant-garde role as critics. Like Newman in his response to surrealism, the critics argued that artist-heroes who change visual...

..., at the same time, disapproving of authorial domination of a dialogue that includes both the reader and, in fiction and drama, the characters whom the author develops. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Mikhail Bakhtin Caryl Emerson Gary Saul Morson Jacques Derrida xenophilia...

... reader more as prose than as music does. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Donald Davie “Movement” poets Boris Pasternak French Symbolism Augustan poetry Symposium: Xenophilia, Part 2 ENGLISH EMERGENCIES AND RUSSIAN RESCUES, c. 1875 – 2000...

... will provide the general reader with a brief and quite innovative account of the historical background against which the tales should be located. The analysis of particular stories is fast paced, amusing to read, and often, to those who know the texts, original in...

... insist; but I wish that Freedman had not worried (after just six pages) that his introduction might have “gone on too long and frightened off some potential readers with all its highfalutin talk about the limits of reason and the hermeneutic circle.” Coraggio! —David Blackbourn Critical Inquiry...

...- cified son is not only — ­as we have long known — ­a gendered response created in the late-­eleventh and twelfth centuries but also a response created not so much by the male writers who authored the first such prayers and poems as by the female readers for whom...

..., never joined a political party. Nor did he urge readers to align with any particular political movement.1 Bitterly critical of the absentee owners, businessmen, and elder states- men who led American institutions, Veblen did not spare those he called “social- ists of the chair.”2 He was a student...

... writes a complex narrative that leaves its interpretation and application to his readers. He neither fashions himself as a national redeemer-poet nor do his protagonists content themselves with a reclusive life forgetful of their surroundings. Duke University Press 2010 Symposium: Apology for...

...Mitchell Cohen This article explores the problem of the political responsibilities of intellectuals and philosophers through an appraisal of Michael Walzer's work on the idea of “connected criticism.” The author elaborates the main elements of this theory, shows how it approaches various thinkers...

...: Spatial Form (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University An Essay in Three Parts,” Sewanee Review 53, no. 2 Press, 1991), which includes the responses to his critics (Spring 1945): 221 – 40; no. 3 (Summer 1945): 433 – 56; no...

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...Carolyn Richardson This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies,” criticizes a prominent form of philosophical account of rational activity. Rational activity includes actions as varied as kicking a soccer ball and speaking a language. The philosophical accounts...

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...Danielle Allen Jan Zwicky's fertile essays expose by contrast the aridity of much contemporary writing about the point of humanistic endeavor and intellectual life. Thinking, in her account, is importantly the work of imagination. The more common focus on critical thinking, in arguments on behalf...

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