Talk:2012 AM The Role of the Critic

Criticism of VGL

• Times Online, "Hot or what? D. B. C. Pierre", November 16, 2002
• The Telegraph, "An heir for Holden Caulfield", By Jasper Rees, 10 Jan 2003 (1190 words, interview-review)
• Times Online, "The accused", January 18, 2003
• The Guardian, "Lone star", Carrie O'Grady, Saturday January 18, 2003 (678 words)
• The Observer, "Growing up with Jesus", Jonathan Heawood, Sunday 19 January 2003 (702)
• The Observer, "You'll die laughing", Sean O'Hagan, Sunday 19 January 2003 (1204 words, interview-review)
• The Guardian, "Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre: Condensed in the style of the original", Saturday 1 February 2003 (parody/review, 415 words)
• The Independent, "Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre: A Huckleberry Finn for the Eminem generation", By Marianne Brace, Monday, 3 February 2003
• Times Online, Times Literary Supplement, "Vernon God Little", Nick Seddon, February 7, 2003
• The Sunday Times, "Review: Fiction: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre", Hugo Barnacle, February 23, 2003
• The Sydney Morning Herald, "Vernon God Little", Andrew Laing, March 15 2003 (500 words)
• Spectator, "Recent first novels", Venetia Ansell, Oct 11, 2003
• The New Yorker, "Showtime: A Booker Prize winner reimagines America", by Joyce Carol Oates, October 27, 2003 (1253 words)
• The Christian Science Monitor, "Columbine dominates Europe's concept of US", Ron Charles, from the November 04, 2003 edition (852 words)
• Time, "Writer Wrong", By Lev Grossman Monday, Nov. 03, 2003 (352 words)
• Michiko Kakutani, "Deep in the Heart of Texas (Via Australia)", The New York Times, November 05, 2003 (802 words)
• Salon.com, "Furriners go nuts for gun-totin' Yanks!", Laura Miller, Nov 6, 2003 (1573 words)
• The New York Times, "Holden Caulfield on Ritalin", Sam Sifton , November 9, 2003 (1145 words)
• James Wood, "The Lie-World", London Review of Books 25. 22 (20 November 2003): 25 (2130 words)
• Anthony Daniels. "Booker vs. Goncourt; or, When Silence Is a Duty." New Criterion 22.5 (Jan. 2004): 24-27. [1]
• The Sunday Times, Pick of the week, "Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre", Trevor Lewis, May 2, 2004
• Katsuaki Watanabe. Bukkā-shō to sumōrutaun Tekisasu. Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 150.3 (June 2004): p162.
• The Independent, "Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre", Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor, Friday, 4 June 2004 (321 words, book group review)
• The Independent, "Not worthy of a Booker win, but one of a kind", John Walsh, Friday, 2 July 2004 (book group review)
• Norment, Lee. "A boy in trouble." Texas Books in Review 24.2-3 (2004): 23. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Mar. 2012.
• Havely, Cicely Palser. "Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little was the winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Although its author is not American, this intricate and disturbing novel can be compared with many American classics. Cicely Palser Havely suggests you read it while it is still fresh." The English Review Sept. 2004: 16+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Mar. 2012.
• Gillian Fenwick. "Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre." Booker Prize Novels: 1969-2005. Ed. Merritt Moseley. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2006. 342-347. Dictionary of Literary Biography 326.
• John Mullan, "Talk this way", The Guardian, Saturday 18 November 2006 (661 words)
• John Mullan, "National lampoon", The Guardian, Saturday 25 November 2006 (730 words)
• John Mullan, "Trial & error", The Guardian, Saturday 2 December 2006 (791 words)
• John Mullan, "Poetic justification", The Guardian, Saturday 9 December 2006 (784 words)
• Maria De Pilar Blanco. "DBC Pierre's Blood Meridian: Cosmopolitan Returns and the Imagination of History." Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 11.1 (Apr. 2007): p59-74.
• Göran Nieragden. "Thank You, Holden Caulfield, and Goodbye: Fresh Ideas for Teaching Adolescent(s) Fiction-the What and the How." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 91.5 (Aug. 2010): 567-578.
• Himansu S. Mohapatra. "The Real within the Hyper-Real: Identity and Social Location in Vernon God Little." Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 1.1 (Winter 2011): 67-77. [2]

Criticism of CI

• The Independent, 20 Jul 2002, the Literator, "Cover Stories". (short)
• The Guardian, 20 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clee, "The Bookseller". (103 words, short on cross-over)
• Guardian co.uk, 1 Aug 2002, Staff and Agencies, "Brad Pitt seeks rights to British novel". (125 words, short on film)
• The Times, 23 Apr 2003, Douglas Kennedy, "The Spectrum Within". (review)
• The Observer, 27 Apr 2003, Kate Kellaway, "Autistic Differences". (1960 words, interview-review)
• The Guardian, 10 May 2003, Nicholas Clee, "The Bookseller". (114 words, short)
• The Spectator, 17 May 2003, Nicholas Barrow, "It Ain't Necessarily So". (105 words, review)
• The Sunday Times, 18 May 2003, Hugo Barnacle, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by mark Haddon". (review)
• The Telegraph, 20 May 2003, Carol Ann Duffy, "The Boy Who Could Not Tell a Lie". (697 words, review)
• The Guardian, 24 May 2003, Charlotte Moore, "Just the facts, ma'am". (571 words, review)
• The Independent, 6 Jun 2003, Christopher Fowler, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon". (summer fiction review)
• Salon.com, 12 Jun 2003, Laura Miller, "'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Time' by Mark Haddon". (757 words)
• The New York Times, 13 Jun 2003, Michiko Kakutani, "Math and Physics? A Cinch. People? Incomprehensible." (795 words, review)
• The New York Times Book Review, 15 Jun 2003, Jay McInerney, "The Remains of the Dog", 108:5. (1076 words, review)
• SFGate.com, 22 Jun 2003, Kate Washington, "Detached Detective: Autistic Teen Sets Out to Solve a Mystery, Finds Much More". (789 words, review)
• The Village Voice, 22 July 2003, Dennis Lim, "Auto Focus: Strange Ways, Here We Come". (1169 words, review)
• "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, The New Yorker", August 4, 2003 (157 words)
• The Washington Post, 10 Aug 2003, Nani Power, "Feeling His Way". (902 words, review)
• Eleanor Birne, "Doing Chatting", London Review of Books 25. 19 (9 October 2003): 14 (2199 words)
• Maria G. Fung, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time." Mathematical Association of America, 12.12.2003
• Guardian, "A journey to shock and enlighten", William Schofield, Thursday 29 January 2004 (540 words, paperback review)
• The Sunday Times, 28 Mar 2004, Alex Clark, "Pick of the Week: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon". (paperback review)
• The Independent, 28 Mar 2004, Murrough O'Brien, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon". (paperback review)
• John Mullan, "Through Innocent Eyes", The Guardian, 24 Apr 2004 (685 words)
• John Mullan, "Expletives Not Deleted", The Guardian, 1 May 2004 (701 words)
• John Mullan, "Letters Patent", The Guardian, 8 May 2004 (703 words)
• John Mullan, "Funny Old World", The Guardian, 15 May 2004 (680 words)
• Helmer Aslaksen, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". American Mathematical Society 53.3 (Mar 2006): 343-345.
• Vivienne Muller. Constituting Christopher: Disability Theory and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 16.2 (Dec. 2006): 118-125.
• Andrej Adam. Epistemološki problem v knjigi skrivnostni primer li kdo je umoril psa. Otrok in Knjiga/The Child and Book: Revija za Vprašanja Mladinske Književnosti, Knjiz1707evne Vzgoje in s Knjigo Povezanih Medijev/The Journal of Issues Relating to Children's Literature, Literary Education and the Media Connected with Books 68 (2007): 34-45.
• Clare Walsh and John McRae. Schema Poetics and Crossover Fiction. Contemporary Stylistics. Ed. Marina Lambrou and Peter Stockwell. London, England: Continuum, 2007. 106-117.
• Caroline Marie and Christelle Reggiani. Portrait of the Artist as a Mathematician. Journal of Romance Studies 7.3 (Winter 2007): p101-10.
• James Berger. Aleterity and Autism: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident in the Neurological Spectrum. Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. 271-288.
• Chris Richards. Forever Young: Essays on Young Adult Fictions. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2008. Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 20. New York, NY.
• Gyasi Burks-Abbott. Mark Haddon's Popularity and the Curious Incidents in My Life as an Autistic. Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. p289-296.
• Alana M. Vincent. Putting Away Childish Things: Incidents of Recovery in Tolkien and Haddon. Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 26.3-4 [101-102] (Spring-Summer 2008): p101-116.
• Stephan Freißmann. A Tale of Autistic Experience: Knowing, Living, Telling in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 6.2 (June 2008): p395-417. Word Count: 151.
• Till Kinzel and Bianca Schwindt. Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time als Lektüre in der Sekundarstufe I. Literaturdidaktik und Literaturvermittlung im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I. Ed. Jan Hollm. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher, 2009. 157-168.
• Stefania Ciocia. Postmodern Investigations: The Case of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 40.4 (Dec. 2009): 320-332.
• Nicola Allen. 'The Perfect Hero for His Age': Christopher Boone and the Role of Logic in the Boy Detective Narrative. The Boy Detectives: Essays on the Hardy Boys and Others. Ed. Michael G. Cornelius. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 167-179.
• Milda Danytė. Tarp teksto ir vaizdo: Šiuolaikinio iliustruoto romano pavyzdžiai. Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis 11 (2010): 81-90.
• Christiana Gregoriou. The Poetics of Deviance and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010. Ed. Malcah Effron and Stephen Knight. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 97-111.

Further Reading (Chronological List)

• Pierre Huet. A Treatise of Romances and their Original [1671]. Translated out of French. London: Printed by R. Battersby for S. Heyrick, at Grace Inn Gate in Holborn, 1672. EEBO. Web. (pdf)
• John Dryden. Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy [1679]. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VIII. The Age of Dryden.Bartleby.com. Web. [3]
• Nicholas Boileau. The Art of Poetry [1683]. Written in French by The SIEUR de Boileau, Made English. LONDON: Printed for R. Bentley, and S. Magnes, in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden, 1683. University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. 2000. Web. [4]
• Alexander Pope. An Essay on Criticism [1709]. The University of Adelaide Library. Adelaide, Australia: eBooks@Adelaide. Web. [5]
• Margaret Fuller. "A Short Essay on Critics". The Dial I (July 1840). The web of American Transcendentalism. Web. [6]
• Charles Baudelaire. "What is the Good of Criticism? [1846]" The Mirror of Art. Critical Studies by Charles Baudelaire. Translated and Edited With Notes and Illustrations By Jonathan Mayne. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. 40-43. Print. [7]
• Arnold, Matthew. "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)". Lectures and Essays in Criticism. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 258-285.
• Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist (1889). The Works of Oscar Wilde 1856-1900. Ed. G.F. Maine. London: Collins, 1948. 948-998.
• T. S. Eliot. "The Function of Criticism [1923]". Selected essays 1917-1932. London: Faber and Faber, [1932] 1972. (ang 647.1 AA 3717,3)
• Woolf, Virginia. "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown." Published by Leonard and Virgina Woolf at the Hogarth Press Tavistock Square, London W.C. 1924.
• I.A. Richards. Principles of Literary Criticism [1924]. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, [1928]. (asl 915 e AJ 6250)
• Rudolf Arnheim. "The Film Critic of Tomorrow [1935]". Essential Texts. Project New Cinephilia. Web. [8]
• R. P. Blackmur, A Critic's Job of Work (1935)
• Joseph Goebbels, “Decree Concerning Art Criticism” (excerpt) (1936)
• John Crowe Ransom, "Criticism, Inc." (1937)
• Cox, R.G. The great reviews. Scrutiny 6 (1937) 2-20; 155-175.
• John Crowe Ransom, "Criticism as Pure Speculation," (1941)
• Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature [1946]. Introduction by Edward W. Said. Trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton University Press, 2003.
• La Drière, J. C. "Role of the Critic". Spirit: A Magazine of Poetry: 13. (1947), pp. 179-186.
• Randall Jarrell, “The Age of Criticism” (1952)
• Northrop Frye, Herman. Anatomy of Criticism. New Jersey: Princeton U. Press, 1957.
• Albert, Robert S. "The Rôle of the Critic in Mass Communications: I. A Theoretical Analysis". Journal of Social Psychology: 48. (1958), pp. 265-274.
• Cargill, Oscar. "The Role of the Critic". College English: 20.3 (1958 Dec.), pp. 105-10.
• Alfred Kazin, “The Function of Criticism Today” (1962)
• Narasimhaiah, C. D. "A Symposium on the Writer and the Public, III: The Role of the Critic". Literary Criterion: 5.4 (1963), pp. 50-54.
• Walter Sutton and Richard Foster. Modern Criticism in Theory and Practice. 1963.
• Houck, James A. "Hazlitt on the Obligations of the Critic.". Wordsworth Circle: 4. (1973), pp. 250-58.
• Rollin, Roger B. "Against Evaluation: The Role of the Critic of Popular Culture.". Journal of Popular Culture: 9. (1975), pp. 355-65.
• Northrop Frye. "The Responsibilities of the Critic". MLN 91. 5, Centennial Issue: Responsibilities of the Critic (Oct 1976):797-813.
• Barbara Smith: "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism" (1977)
• Topor, Wolor. "The Role of the African Literary Critic as an Instrument of Innovation". pp. 105-20. Le Critique africain et son peuple comme producteur de civilisation. Paris: Presence Africaine, 1977. 549 pp.
• Michael C. Leff. "Interpretation and the art of the rhetorical critic." Western Journal of Speech Communication 44.4 (1980): 337-349.
• Showalter, Elaine. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." Critical Inquiry 8:2 (1981:Winter): 179-205.
• Hernadi. P. (ed.). What is criticism? Bloomington. IN: Indiana University Press, 1981. (esp.: René Wellek. "A Historical Perspective: Literary Criticism." 297-321.)
• Said, Edward W. "Secular Criticism." The World, the Text, and the Critic. Harvard University Press, 1983. 1-30.
• Verdaasdonk, H. "Social and Economic Factors in the Attribution of Literary Quality." Poetics 12 (1983): 383-395.
• Van Rees, C.J. "How a literary work becomes a masterpiece: on the threefold selection practiced by literary criticism." Poetics 12 (1983): 397–417.
• Eagleton, Terry. The Function of Criticism.London: Verso, 1984.
• Elsom, John. "The Social Role of the Theatre Critic." Contemporary Review 246.1432 (1985): 259-263.
• Rosengren, Karl Erik. "Literary Criticism: Future Invented." Poetics 16 (1987): 295-325.
• Van Rees, C.J. "How reviewers reach consensus on the value of literary works." Poetics, 16 (1987): 275–294.
• Glaberson, Eric. "The literary criticism of the New York intellectuals: a defense and appreciation." American Studies 29. 1 (Spring 1988): 71-85.
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (1989)
• Wayne Koestenbaum: Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism (1990)
• Kelkar, Ashok R. "Making and Writing Literary History: The Critic's Role." New Quest 80 (1990): 89-95.
• Wesley Shrum. "Critics and publics: cultural mediation in highbrow and popular performing arts". American Journal of Sociology 97. 2 (Sep 1991): 347-375
• Morris Dickstein, “Introduction: What Happened to Criticism,” from Double Agent: The Critic and Society (1992)
• Warnick, Barbara. "Leff in Context: What Is the Critic's Role?". The Quarterly Journal of Speech: 78.2 (1992 May), pp. 232-37.
• Billington, Michael. "The Role of the Theatre Critic in a Climate of Crisis." Critical Survey 5.1 (1993): 3-7.
• Levo, Yael Zarhy Levo. "The theatre critic as a cultural agent: Esslin, Marowitz and Tynan." Poetics 21 (1993): 525-543.
• Judith Williamson, Introduction to Deadline at Dawn (1993)
• Cameron, S. On the Role of Critics in the Culture Industry , Journal of Cultural Economics 19:4 (1995): 321-331.
• Tobias Döring, Uwe Schäfer, Mark Stein (eds.). Can “The Subaltern” Be Read? The Role of the Critic in Postcolonial Studies. ACOLIT Special Issue No. 2. Frankfurt a.M.: Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, 1996.
• Eigenbrod, Renate. "Can 'the Subaltern' Be Read? The Role of the Critic in Postcolonial Studies: An Epilogue to a Workshop." Acolit 2 (1996): 97-101.
• Smallwood, Philip. "The definition of criticism". New Literary History 27.3 (1996): 545–554.
• J. Hoberman, “The Film Critic of Tomorrow, Today” (1996)
• Janssen, Susanne. "Reviewing as a social practice: institutional constraints on critics’ attention for contemporary fiction." Poetics 24.5 (1997) 275–297.
• Eaglestone, Robert. Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997
• Wouter de Nooy. "'A literary playground': Literary criticism and balance theory". Poetics 26 (1999): 385-404.
• Greer, Graham. "The Role of the Professional Theatre Critic in a Post-Apartheid South Africa." South African Theatre Journal 15 (2001): 56-64.
• Suman Basuroy, Subimal Chatterjee and S. Abraham Ravid. "How Critical Are Critical Reviews? The Box Office Effects of Film Critics, Star Power, and Budgets." The Journal of Marketing 67:4 (Oct., 2003): 103-117.
• Wayne Booth. "To: All Who Care about the Future of Criticism. From: Anon. February 7, 2003". Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004): 350-354.
• Glynn, Mary Ann and Michael. Lounsbury. "From the Critics' Corner: Logic Blending, Discursive Change and Authenticity in a Cultural Production System". Journal of Management Studies 42.5 (Jul 2005): 1031-1055.
• McDonald, Rónán. The Death of the Critic. London: Continuum Press, [2007] 2008.
• Day, Gary. Literary Criticism: A New History. Edinburgh University Press. 2008.
• McDonald, Rónán. "The Value of Arts and the Art of Evaluation: English Studies and Literary Criticism." The Public Value of the Humanities. Ed. Jonathan Bate. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
• Nordin, Irene Gilsenan. "Poetry and Education: The Role of the Literary Critic in Academia." Creation, Publishing, and Criticism: The Advance of Women's Writing. Ed. Maria Xesús Nogueira, et al. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2010. 75-82. Galician Studies 2.
• Verboord, Marc. "The Legitimacy of Book Critics in the Age of the Internet and Omnivorousness: Expert Critics, Internet Critics and Peer Critics in Flanders and the Netherlands". European Sociological Review 26.6 (2010): 623-637.
• David Bordwell, “Academics vs. Critics” (2011)
• Adrian Martin, “No Direction Home: Creative Criticism” (2011)