1st Edition

Polemic Critical or Uncritical

Edited By Jane Gallop Copyright 2004
    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume

    Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.

    Introduction, JaneGallop; Chapter 1 Uncritical Reading, Michael Warner; Chapter 2 Reading as Self-Annihilation, Amy Hollywood; Chapter 3 “Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio”, Helen Deutsch; Chapter 4 Argument and Ethos, Amanda Anderson; Chapter 5 Can Polemic be Ethical?, JonathanCrewe; Chapter 6 Kael's Attack on Sarris, LouisMenand; Chapter 7 “What is Enlightenment?”, JaneGallop;

    Biography

    Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of several books, most recently Anecdotal Theory (Duke, 2002).