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Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Michel ChaouliPublish date:2024-02-16Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226830421ISBN-10:022683042XUPC:9780226830421Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.50 x 5.43 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC3KW0FKHV
An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.

Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us scramble for a response. As Michel Chaouli argues, criticism involves three moments: Something speaks to me. I must tell you about it. But I don't know how. The heart of criticism, no matter its form, lies in these surges of thoughts and feelings. Criticism arises from the fundamental need to share what overwhelms us.

We tend to associate criticism with scholarship and journalism. But Chaouli is not describing professional criticism, but what he calls "poetic criticism"--a staging ground for surprise, dread, delight, comprehension, and incomprehension. Written in the mode of a philosophical essay, Something Speaks to Me draws on a wide range of writers, artists, and thinkers, from Kant and Schlegel to Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Barthes, and Cavell. Reflecting on these dimensions of poetic experience, Something Speaks to Me is less concerned with joining academic debates than communicating the urgency of criticism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226830421ISBN-10:022683042XUPC:9780226830421Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.50 x 5.43 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC3KW0FKHV
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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