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OverviewThis collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Discussion ranges widely with contributions from outside the literary academy, including essays by the novelists Doris Lessing and David Lodge. All the essays are concerned with what literature, and therefore criticism, is or aims to be. Several are concerned with a specifically aesthetic way of knowing, the value of which lies in its very resistance to scientific models of knowledge. The answers about how literature can resist such models, and what kinds of knowing best respond to the distinctive nature of aesthetic experience, are varied. The collection also addresses the consequences for literary criticism of the politically-driven critique which has recently undermined traditional concepts of truth and knowledge in both arts and sciences. And finally it asks whether professional criticism should be a deepened extension of the sense-making activity of ordinary intelligent reading, or whether it should be a purely objective study, analogous to other scientific forms of knowledge studied in an academic context. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Fuller (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham) , Patricia Waugh (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.436kg ISBN: 9780198186397ISBN 10: 0198186398 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 17 June 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: David Fuller and Patricia Waugh: Introduction Part I: Criticism and the History and Philosophy of Science 2: Patricia Waugh: Revising the Two Cultures Debate: Science, Literature and Value 3: David Cooper: Science, Interpretation and Criticism 4: Raymond Tallis: Evidence-based and Evidence-free Generalisations: a Tale of Two Cultures 5: Jacques Berthoud: Science and the Self: Lacan's doctrine of the Signifier Part II: Criticism and the Aesthetic 6: Michael O'Neill: Poetry as Literary Criticism 7: David Lodge: Criticism and Creation 8: Doris Lessing: Writing Autobiography 9: Paul H. Fry: Beneath Interpretation: Intention and the Experience of Literature 10: David Fuller: Poetry, Music and the Sacred Part III: Criticism and the Ethical 11: Séan Burke: The Aesthetic, the Cognitive and the Ethical: Criticism and Discursive Responsibility 12: Timothy Clark: Literature and the Crisis in the Concept of the University 13: Michael Bell: The Metaphysics of Modernism: Aesthetic Myth and the Myth of the AestheticReviewsfinely edited and spirited collection of essays on the limitations and possibilites of literary criticism ... In these essays the author is alive and well, aestheic knowledge is distinguished from science, there is a humanistic understanding of consciousness and a notion of purpose, meaning and aesthetic delight. Mary Tomlinson, THES 5/11/99 highly commendable book HJEAS finely edited and spirited collection of essays on the limitations and possibilites of literary criticism ... In these essays the author is alive and well, aestheic knowledge is distinguished from science, there is a humanistic understanding of consciousness and a notion of purpose, meaning and aesthetic delight. Mary Tomlinson, THES 5/11/99 highly commendable book HJEAS Author InformationFuller: Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, 1971-9; University of Durham, 1980- (Lecturer, 1980-90; Senior Lecturer, 1990-6; Reader, 1996-) Waugh: University of Sunderland, 1980-9; University of Durham, 1989- Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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