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OverviewEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. How do creative writers reach their audiences through the public art and craft of criticism? How do their creative philosophies infuse and inflect the analyses and insights offered in their criticism? These are the central questions that propel The Work of the Living. Through a study of criticism by five modernist artist-critics, this book evaluates the art of criticism as an aesthetic and intellectual project. Through their formal choices, narrative strategies, rhetorical techniques, and even publication venues, the artist-critics of the modernist era bring their creativity and craft to the genre of critical nonfiction. In little magazines and lecture halls, in newspapers and classrooms, and in the multimedia afterlives offered by citational practices and digital archives alike, the criticism of modernism’s artist-critics generates not only sites for critical inquiry, but communities of readers that gather—and discourse through—the text across time and contexts. Rather than probing the history of literary criticism as an academic enterprise, the essays in The Work of the Living turn their attention to the public cultures of literary and art criticism through historically informed close-readings of a select group of artist-critics—Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot, Robert Penn Warren, and E.M. Forster. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick Thomas HenryPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 9781802074789ISBN 10: 1802074783 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 26 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction “The Work of the Living”: The Artist-Critic and the Public Craft of Criticism Chapter One Impressions of Cézanne: Roger Fry and the Critic’s Perspective Chapter Two “A Sphinx That Wrote”: Irony and Polemic in Rebecca West’s Early Journalism Chapter Three The Perfect Critic and the Perfect Sleuth: T.S. Eliot and the Critical Art of Detection Chapter Four Workshops of Democracy: Robert Penn Warren, the Classroom, and the Public Art of Criticism Coda The Lonely Voice and the Public Art of Criticism: A Reflection in Fragments AcknowledgmentsReviewsAuthor InformationPatrick Thomas Henry is the fiction and poetry editor for the journal Modern Language Studies. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of North Dakota. He is the author of the short story collection Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024). He is currently at work on a novel that melds fabulism with an academic setting, along with ongoing research into the intersections of narrative perspective, subjectivity, memory, and modes of perceiving the world. He’s also at work on a craft book on the writing of fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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