The Character of Criticism

by Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Book Overview

Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world; it demands, in other words, to be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415971322
• ISBN13: 9780415971324
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"