Polemic : critical or uncritical

Author(s)

• Gallop, Jane

Bibliographic Information

Polemic : critical or uncritical

edited by Jane Gallop

（Essays from the English Institute）

Routledge, 2004

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, JaneGallop
• Chapter 1 Uncritical Reading, Michael Warner
• Chapter 2 Reading as Self-Annihilation, Amy Hollywood
• Chapter 3 "Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio", Helen Deutsch
• Chapter 4 Argument and Ethos, Amanda Anderson
• Chapter 5 Can Polemic be Ethical?, JonathanCrewe
• Chapter 6 Kael's Attack on Sarris, LouisMenand
• Chapter 7 "What is Enlightenment?", JaneGallop

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA73291928
• ISBN:
  • 0415972280
• LCCN: 2004014175
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 209 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN771
  • DC22 : 809/.93384
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Books and reading
  • LCSH : Polemics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13103892