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A future for criticism / 6 6 Catherine Belsey. - - - xv, 143 pages 23 cm. - - - - - . - Blackwell manifestos . - 0 . - . - 0 .



Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Pleasure: Have we neglected it? Fiction for pleasure The case of tragedy The English curriculum Cries of joy `Aesthetic' pleasure The Pleasure of the Text Modernist unpleasure Gaiety 2.Piety: Haven't we overdone it? Criticism on the defensive Classic defences The advent of theory Law The superego Neurosis Complacency Culture and Anarchy Artefacts and pleasure Critical writing 3.Biography: Friend or foe? Life and art Biography in theory What the authors say New Historicism Shakespeare's life Fact or fiction? Shakespeare's memory Romance The death of the reader 4.Realism: Do we overrate it? A disputed value The default genre Imitation Insight Totalization Suspicion Objections The radical view Recuperation A counter-example 5.Culture: What do we mean by it? Cultural criticism Twin perils Culture as meanings Contents note continued: Meanwhile, in Paris Anthropology Another culture Perils circumvented Work to do 6.History: Do we do it justice? Official usage Cultural difference History and criticism Customary knowledge Dissonance An example The old historicism Criticism as cultural history The uses of criticism Critical skills 7.Desire: A force to reckon with Pleasure revisited Orpheus Loss The desire of the protagonist Stand-ins The desire of the reader The desire of the text Substitution Pacification Defiance Breaking the rules And so... Criticism.

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