The World, the Text, and the Critic

Edward W Said

ISBN 10: 0593687906 / ISBN 13: 9780593687901

Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Okt 2025, 2025

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Neuware - 'Edward W. Said, author of Beginnings and the controversial yet seminal Orientalism, is one of the most acclaimed public intellectuals of our time. In this sweeping and rigorous work of literary criticism, he pushes the field even further forward. Moving from Derrida to Foucault, from Marxism to structuralism to psychoanalysis, and from Swift to Conrad to Lukâacs to Renan, Said argues that critical systems and the dogmas of the dominant culture have crippled our engagement with literature, forcing a text to meet the requirements of theory while ignoring the tethers that bind it to the living world. Provocatively, Said advocates for freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, and to the heterogeneity of human experience. The World, the Text, and the Critic asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society'-- Provided by publisher.

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• Titolo: The World, the Text, and the Critic
• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Okt 2025
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0593687906
• ISBN 13: 9780593687901
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 154 A x 22 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 154 millimetri di altezza per 22 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 410 grammi

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A sweeping and intellectually rigorous work of literary criticism that moves the field forward, from one of the preeminent public scholars

“[Said’s] book is relaxed and discursive, original, immensely learned, fluently written.”?John Bayley, The New York Times Book Review

Edward W. Said, author of Beginnings and the controversial yet seminal Orientalism, is one of the most acclaimed public intellectuals of our time. In this sweeping and rigorous work of literary criticism, he pushes the field even further forward. Moving from Derrida to Foucault, from Marxism to psychoanalysis, and from Swift to Conrad, Said argues that the dogmas of the dominant culture have crippled our engagement with literature, forcing a text to meet the requirements of theory while ignoring the tethers that bind it to the living world.

Provocatively, Said advocates for freedom of consciousness and for responsiveness to history; to the exigencies of the text; to political, social, and human values; and to the heterogeneity of human experience. The World, the Text, and the Critic asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.

Informazioni sull?autore

EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into thirty-five languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). He died in 2003 in New York City.