Critiquing Criticism: From the Ancient to the Digital

Sophie Corser; Lucy Russell

Critiquing Criticism
From the Ancient to the Digital

Edited by Sophie Corser and Lucy Russell

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MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 10

Modern Humanities Research Association

2 February 2016

Literary criticism in its widest sense has many communities, from coffeehouses to digital libraries. Examining a range of European literatures – English, Italian, and German – from the seventeenth century to the present day, the contributors highlight both the multifaceted nature of criticism and its common trends. Indeed, by raising the issue of the fundamental individuality of criticism, Critiquing Criticism engages with one question above all: if criticism is at root interpretation, how is it also a creative act? Where it is, does it then forfeit its claim to objective authority over the work being discussed? In a culture with steadily increasing access to a wealth of criticism, we must not overlook the need to critique criticism itself.

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1-9	Introduction Sophie Corser, Lucy Russell	Read Cite
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10-20	The Scrutiny of Poet Squab: John Dryden and the Figure of the Critic in Late Seventeenth-Century London, 1668-1700 Sean Whitfield	Read Cite
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21-32	‘In the Advance Guard’: Evelyn Waugh as a Reviewer Yuexi Liu	Read Cite
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33-43	Into the Author’s Mind: Cesare Garboli and the Essay as Embodied Comprehension Paolo Gervasi	Read Cite
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44-54	Heidegger and Nietzsche: On the Need for Criticism and its Critique Jack K. Rasmus-Vorrath	Read Cite
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Critiquing CriticismFrom the Ancient to the Digital

Edited by Sophie Corser and Lucy Russell

Critiquing Criticism
From the Ancient to the Digital