The World, the Text, and the Critic
by Edward W. Said
ISBN: 0674961870
ISBN-13: 9780674961876
Format: Paperback
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"It is a pleasure to read someone who has not only studied and thought so carefully, but is also beginning to substantiate, as distinct from announcing, a genuinely emergent way of thinking." -- Raymond Williams
"[Said's] book is relaxed and discursive, original, immmensely learned, fluently written." -- John Bayley
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published date: 1984
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism.
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