The Origins of Dislike

by Amit Chaudhuri

In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's criticism disproves and questions several assumptions that a serious and original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism can't be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a writer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198793820
• ISBN13: 9780198793823
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"