Skeptical Engagements

by Freda Crews

Eleven years ago, in Out of My System, the influential literary critic, Frederick Crews, disclosed the erosion of his Freudian sympathies. Now, in a carefully reasoned and witty new book, he reveals where that reappraisal has taken him and why he has come to regard himself as an opponent of all "self-validating" doctrines. The essays and pieces in this volume concern what Crews calls "the fear of facing the world, including its works of literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195056604
• ISBN13: 9780195056600
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.1"