TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belsey, Catherine.
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SN  - 9781405169561 (paperback : alk. paper)
SN  - 2
PY  - 2011///46
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
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KW  - 2
KW  - 0
KW  - 6
KW  - 20
KW  - History and criticism;Theory, etc
KW  - Fiction;Criticism
N1  - 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; 5
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