{"product_id":"the-intimate-critique-autobiographical-literary-criticism-paperback-softback-9780822312925","title":"The Intimate Critique; Autobiographical Literary Criticism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822312925","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Intimate Critique\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAutobiographical Literary Criticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiane P. Freedman (Edited by), Olivia Frey (Edited by), Frances Murphy Zauhar (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822312925\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 January 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.3 x 16.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Intimate Critique\u003c\/i\u003e marks the coming out of a new critical genre, sure to generate controversy, pleasure, rage, support, disbelief, acclaim (i.e., strong reactions!) among its readers.\"-Alice Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eFrench Lessons: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Grouped together, these very different essays raise and respond to a question that feminist theorists continue to ask-about the extent to which individual experience and self-expression may be read as representative.\"-Rachel M. Brownstein, author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This book goes a long way toward breathing life into literary criticism, advancing the necessary effort to write about it in a personal, engaged, and interesting manner.\"-G. Douglas Atkins, University of Kansas\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFor a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts-above all, \"objectivity\"-seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. \u003ci\u003eThe Intimate Critique\u003c\/i\u003e marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life.\u003cbr\u003eGrounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume-including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim-respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result-which has been referred to as \"personal writing,\" \"experimental critical writing,\" or \"intellectual autobiography\"-maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Francis Murphy Zauhar 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Muse-ings on Genre, Autobiography, Narrative: Formative Strategies \u003cbr\u003e Border Crossing as Method and Motif in Contemporary American Writing, or, How Freud Helped Me Case the Joint \/ Diane P. Freedman 13\u003cbr\u003e Me and My Shadow \/ Jane Tompkins 23\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Literary Darwinism: Women's Voices and Critical Discourse \/ Olivia Frey 41\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eEveryday Life\"\u003cbr\u003e: My Sojourn at Parchman Farm \/ Cheryl B. Torsney 67\u003cbr\u003e Excerpts from Letters to Friends \/ Susan Koppelman 75\u003cbr\u003e Social Circles: Being a Report on J. Hills Miller's Campus Visitation \/ Linda R. Robertson 81\u003cbr\u003e Touchstones and Bedrocks: Learning the Stories We Need \/ Victoria Ekanger 93\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Critical Confessions \u003cbr\u003e Creative Voices: Women Reading and Women's Writing \/ Frances Murphy Zauhar 103\u003cbr\u003e Breaking Silence: \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Shirley Nelson Garner 117\u003cbr\u003e Different Silences \/ Traise Yamamoto 127\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eWhat's in a Name?\"\u003cbr\u003e: Some Meanings of Blackness \/ Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 135\u003cbr\u003e Poetry and the Age: \"\u003cbr\u003eA Girl in a Library\"\u003cbr\u003e to Randall Jarrell \/ Sandra M. Brown 151\u003cbr\u003e My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates \/ Brenda Daly 163\u003cbr\u003e Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother \/ Melody Graulich 175\u003cbr\u003e The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized \/ Shirley Geok-lin Lim 191\u003cbr\u003e Dividing Fences \/ Carol S. Taylor 197\u003cbr\u003e What Do Women \u003ci\u003eReally\u003c\/i\u003e Mean? Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives \/ Suzanne Bunkers 207\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Autobiographical Literary Criticism \u003cbr\u003e Between the Medusa and the Abyss: Reading \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, Reading Myself \/ Ellen Brown 225\u003cbr\u003e Rereading \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, Rereading Myself \/ Peter Carlton 237\u003cbr\u003e The Crippling of the Third World: Shiva Naipaul's Heritage \/ Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton 225\u003cbr\u003e Penelope's Web \/ Gail Griffin 255\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eAin't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around!\"\u003cbr\u003e: Reading the \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e of Frederick Douglass \/ Dolan Hubbard 265\u003cbr\u003e Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Me: A Duography \/ Kendall 273\u003cbr\u003e In Between Abject and Object: The Mourning Sickness of the Expectant Mother, or, Three Movements of the Blues in B Minor \/ Dana Beckelman 283\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLa Ronde\u003c\/i\u003e of Children and Mothers \/ Julia Balen 293\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 303\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 309\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574568284440,"sku":"9780822312925","price":22.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-intimate-critique-autobiographical-literary-criticism-paperback-softback-9780822312925","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}