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The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said, Ricardo García Pérez is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The World, the Text, and the Critic about?
<p>This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of <i>Beginnings</i> and the controversial <i>Orientalism</i>, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. He argues, however, that the various methods and schools have had a crippling effect through their tendency to force works of literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring the complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.</p> <p>The critic must maintain a distance both from critical systems and from the dogmas and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, Said contends. He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works.</p> <p>Combining the principles and practice of criticism, the book offers illuminating investigations
Who reads The World, the Text, and the Critic?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Edward W. Said, Ricardo García Pérez
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674961876
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Reference
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (182 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14