Double Agent: The Critic and Society

by Morris Dickstein

Book Overview

In recent decades, an enormous gulf has opened up between academic critics addressing their professional colleagues, often in abstract and technical terms, and the kind of public critic who writes about books, films, plays, music, and art for a wider audience. How did this breach develop between specialists and generalists, between theorists and practical critics, between humanists and anti-humanists? What, if anything, can be done to repair it? Can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073991
• ISBN13: 9780195073997
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"