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Impressive In Scope And Erudition, Christopher Knight's Uncommon Readers Focuses On Three Critics Whose Voices - Mixing Eloquence With Pugnacity - Stand Out As Among The Most Notable Independent Critics Working During The Last Half-century. The Critics Are Denis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, And George Steiner, And Their Independence - A Striking Characteristic In A Time Of Corporate Criticism - Is Reflective Of Both Their Backgrounds (donoghue's Catholic Upbringing In Protestant-ruled Northern Ireland; Kermode's Manx Beginnings; And Steiner's Jewish Upbringing In Pre-holocaust Europe) And Their Temperaments.^ Each Represents A Party Of One, A Fact That Has, On The One Hand, Made Them The Object Of The Occasional Vituperative Dismissal And, On The Other, Contributed To Their Influence And Remarkable Longevity. Since The 1950s, Steiner, Donoghue, And Kermode Have Each Maintained A Highly Public Profile, Regularly Contributing To Such Influential Publications As Encounter, New Yorker, New York Review Of Books, Times Literary Supplement, And The London Review Of Books. This Aspect Of Their Work Receives Particular Attention In Uncommon Readers, For It Illustrates A Renewed Interest In The

Author
Christopher J. Knight
Publisher
Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9781442682856
Subjects
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction

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