The World, the Text, and the Critic

The World, the Text, and the Critic
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1983
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674961876


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Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.


The World, the Text, and the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguisti
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Edward William Said
Categories: Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

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Edward Said and the Work of the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Paul A. Bové
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-01 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as
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Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Edward P. Jones
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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