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The Critic as Amateur de Professor Saikat Majumdar

The Critic as Amateur

Editat de Professor Saikat Majumdar, Prof Aarthi Vadde
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2019
Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves into a highly specialized discipline enshrined in the university? The Critic as Amateur brings leading and emerging scholars together to explore the role of amateurism in literary studies. While untrained reading has always been central to arenas beyond the academy - book clubs, libraries, used bookstores - its role in the making of professional criticism is often disavowed or dismissed. This volume, the first on the critic as amateur, restores the links between expertise, autodidactic learning and hobbyist pleasure by weaving literary criticism in and out of the university. Our contributors take criticism to the airwaves, through the culture of early cinema, the small press, the undergraduate classroom and extracurricular writing groups. Canonical critics are considered alongside feminist publishers and queer intellectuals. The Critic as Amateur is a vital book for readers invested in the disciplinary history of literary studies and the public role of the humanities. It is also a crucial resource for anyone interested in how literary criticism becomes a richly diverse yet shared discourse in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501341410
ISBN-10: 1501341413
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Topics discussed include amateurism as the forgotten bedrock of reading; the epistemological status of criticism; the principled refusal of the identity of "expert" by some prominent critics; the BBC radio's role in the birth of popular literary criticism; book history; new media studies, and much more

Notă biografică

Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India. He is the author of numerous books, including Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (2013), College: Pathways of Possibility (2018), and the novel The Scent of God (2019).Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University, USA. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 (2016), winner of the 2018 Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Criticism for the Whole Person"Aarthi Vadde (Duke University, USA) with Saikat Majumdar (Ashoka University, India)Part I: THE AMATEUR IMPULSE1. In Praise of AmateurismDerek Attridge (University of York, UK)2. In the Shadow of the ArchiveTom Lutz (Founder and Editor of Los Angeles Review of Books)3. "It's All Very Suggestive, but It Isn't Scholarship"Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (University of Arizona, USA)4. Beyond Professionalism: The Pasts and Futures of Creative CriticismPeter D. McDonald (Oxford University, UK)Part II: THE AMATEUR IN THE AGE OF PROFESSIONALIZATION5. Leavis, Richards, and the DuplicatorsChristopher Hilliard (University of Sydney, Australia)6. The Critic as Rasik: Pramatha Chaudhuri, Tagore, and the New Language of Literary Writing Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)7. The Sophisticated Amateur: Vernon Lee versus the Vital LiarsMimi Winick (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)Part III: THE CRITIC AS AMATEUR IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA8. Dorothy Richardson and Close Up: Amateur and Professional Exchanges in Film CultureZlatina Nikolova & Chris Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)9. New Judgments: Literary Criticism on AirEmily C. Bloom (Columbia University, USA)10. The Small Press and the Feminist CriticMelanie Micir (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)EPILOGUE: New, Interesting, and Original: The Undergraduate as AmateurKara Wittman (Pomona College, USA)List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This splendid, exhaustively researched, and timely collection-buoyed by the editors' equally comprehensive introduction and a contrapuntal pedagogical epilogue on New, Interesting, and Original: The Undergraduate as Amateur-is substantial in developing its arguments.
It is a rare book of literary criticism that can both expand the field and offer a self-exegesis of it. The Critic as Amateur, edited by Saikat Majumdar and Aarthi Vadde, is such a book. This richly suggestive collection of essays negotiates the derring-do of the provocateur-amateur position, while reflexively demonstrating the scholarly expertise required to argue for the importance - indeed necessity - of such a position.
This is an engaging and often enthralling collection of essays that goes to the heart of current debates about the purpose of literary studies. Neither a simple defense of amateurism nor a disparagement of it, it offers substantial and thought-provoking insights on the many entanglements of professional and amateur reading.
Nothing amateurish about this kaleidoscopic array of essays on a question central to literary criticism and to the humanities more generally: How do love and work shape esthetic experience and the project of analyzing that experience? From a cast of characters populated by fans as well as writers, journalists as well as monograph-writers, students as well as teachers, emerges the insight that even--or especially--professionals engage in amateur criticism, and that the resulting genres challenge received understandings of populism, institutions, and indeed reading itself. A thought-provoking set of arguments accessible to professionals and amateurs alike.
In an age marked simultaneously by sterile professionalism, revolts against experts, and information overload, The Critic as Amateur bracingly highlights both new and neglected ways of understanding literature, the self, and the world. Anyone concerned about the future of reading and writing should read it."
In this age of fake news and a mistrust of experts, what value can amateur impulses bring to criticism? In The Critic as Amateur a space is made for this question and many more in a fascinating essay collection.