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*'''Lecturer:''' [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] | *'''Lecturer:''' [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] | ||
*'''Combination:''' as literary/cultural studies course in AM 2b, 5, 10, 11 | *'''Combination:''' as literary/cultural studies course in AM 2b, 5, 10, 11 | ||
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(Second edition, 1989; online version December 2011. <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/44587>; accessed 23 February 2012. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1893.) | (Second edition, 1989; online version December 2011. <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/44587>; accessed 23 February 2012. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1893.) | ||
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==29.05.12: Contemporary Criticism: Academic Criticism of CI and VGL== | ==29.05.12: Contemporary Criticism: Academic Criticism of CI and VGL== | ||
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− | *academic criticism | + | *John Mullan's Guardian Book Club Series and its offers for academic criticism |
+ | *academic criticism: topics, criteria, questions | ||
+ | *choose two out of four texts under 'reading' (either two articles on VGL or CI, or one each): | ||
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+ | '''Presenters''' | ||
+ | *Kirstin Bogat: "CI's life cycle as a cross-over novel" | ||
'''Reading VGL''' | '''Reading VGL''' | ||
*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. | *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. [http://ravenshawuniversity.ac.in/File/RJLCS%202011.pdf] | *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. [http://ravenshawuniversity.ac.in/File/RJLCS%202011.pdf] | ||
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'''Reading CI''' | '''Reading CI''' | ||
− | * | + | *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. |
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*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.Postmodern | *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.Postmodern | ||
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− | + | ==05.06.12: Traditions and Historical Perspectives I: The Function of Criticism == | |
− | ==05.06.12: Traditions and Historical Perspectives I: | + | |
'''Topics''' | '''Topics''' | ||
+ | *alternative histories of literary criticism | ||
+ | *critics on the function(s) of criticism | ||
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+ | '''Presenters''' | ||
+ | *Matthias Heyn: "René Wellek's Historical Perspective" | ||
+ | *Patrick Ernst: "The Function of Criticism: Arnold and Eliot" | ||
+ | *Simon Fischer: "The Function of Criticism: Terry Eagleton" | ||
'''Reading''' | '''Reading''' | ||
+ | *René Wellek. "A Historical Perspective: Literary Criticism." What Is Criticism? Ed. Paul Hernadi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. 297-321. | ||
'''Further Reading''' | '''Further Reading''' | ||
+ | *[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1990_arnold_the-function_of_criticism.pdf 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.] | ||
+ | *T. S. Eliot. "The Function of Criticism [1923]". Selected essays 1917-1932. London: Faber and Faber, [1932] 1972. (ang 647.1 AA 3717,3) | ||
+ | *Eagleton, Terry. The Function of Criticism.London: Verso, 1984. | ||
+ | *McDonald, Rónán. The Death of the Critic. London: Continuum Press, [2007] 2008. | ||
− | ==12.06.12: THP II: | + | ==12.06.12: THP II: The Role of the Critic in Literary Communication== |
'''Topics''' | '''Topics''' | ||
+ | *the relationship of critics and other participants in literary communications | ||
+ | *rows and scandals, or the critic as mediator | ||
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+ | '''Presenters''' | ||
+ | *Sophia Serena Matzas: "The Triangular Relationship between Author, Reader, and Critic" | ||
+ | *???: "The Critic as Artist?" (cf. Wilde) | ||
+ | *Julia Kreft: "Contemporary Critics and Controversial Criticism: Michiko Kakutani" | ||
+ | *???: "Contemporary Critics and Controversial Criticism: James Wood" | ||
'''Reading''' | '''Reading''' | ||
+ | *[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1856_wilde_the_critic_as_artist.pdf Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist (1889). The Works of Oscar Wilde 1856-1900. Ed. G.F. Maine. London: Collins, 1948. 948-998.] | ||
'''Further Reading''' | '''Further Reading''' | ||
+ | *[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2006/04/michiko_kakutani.html Ben Yagoda, "Michiko Kakutani. A critic with a fixation." Slate.com, Monday, 10 Apr 2006.] | ||
+ | *[http://www.themillions.com/2011/11/the-disappointment-author-lethem-v-wood.html Sam Allingham, "The Disappointment Author: Lethem v. Wood", The Millions, November 11, 2011] | ||
+ | *[http://www.newstatesman.com/fiction/2009/12/novel-culture-smith-wood Jonathan Derbyshire, "The hysteric moment", New Statesman, 10 December 2009] | ||
− | ==19.06.12: THP III: | + | ==19.06.12: THP III: Criticism and Ideology== |
'''Topics''' | '''Topics''' | ||
+ | *which role does ideology play in literary criticism? | ||
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+ | '''Presenters''' | ||
+ | *Lea Gehlhaar: "Gender Criticism" (cf. Showalter) | ||
+ | *Isabell Purwin: "Black Feminist Criticism" (cf. Smith) | ||
+ | *Nils Rademacher: "Secular Criticism" (cf. Said) | ||
+ | *Tim Jentzen: "Marxist Criticism" (cf. Eagleton) | ||
'''Reading''' | '''Reading''' | ||
+ | *Eagleton, Terry. Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory. London: Verso, 2006. [asl 441.7 CR 2851 HA / Dauer-HA Ger / Einf. in die Literaturw. / E 3 / 9 Ger] | ||
'''Further Reading''' | '''Further Reading''' | ||
+ | *Smith, Barbara. "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism." [1977] Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture. Eds. Deborah Rosenfelt and Judith Newton. London and New York: Methuen, 1985. 3-18. [ang 910.9 soz BT 1883] | ||
+ | *Showalter, Elaine. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." Critical Inquiry 8:2 (1981:Winter): 179-205. | ||
+ | *Döring, Tobias, 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. | ||
+ | *Said, Edward W. "Secular Criticism." The World, the Text, and the Critic. Harvard University Press, 1983. 1-30. [ang 953.3 said 3 BN 8176] | ||
+ | *Eagleton, Terry, and Drew Milne (eds.). Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader. Malden, Mass. et al: Blackwell, 2006. [asl 441.7 CR 2856,2006 HA / Dauer-HA Ger / Einf. in die Literaturw. / E 3 / 9 Ger] | ||
==26.06.12: THP IV: Media vs. Academia == | ==26.06.12: THP IV: Media vs. Academia == | ||
'''Topics''' | '''Topics''' | ||
− | *academic analysis, essayistic criticism and journalistic reviews (Bordwell) | + | *academic analysis, essayistic criticism and journalistic reviews (cf. Bordwell) |
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+ | *Hannah Bak: "Media vs. Academia: Hierarchical Institutions?" (cf. van Rees) | ||
+ | *Mareike Wille: "Media vs. Academia in Film Criticism" (cf. Bordwell) | ||
+ | *Charlotte Anna Sophie von Harling: "Holden Caulfield and Contemporary Adolescent Fiction: Comparisons of CI and VGL to The Catcher in the Rye in Media and Academia" (cf. Nieragden) | ||
+ | *Esther Themann: "CI, representations of autism and disability studies" | ||
'''Reading''' | '''Reading''' | ||
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− | + | *[http://www.filmlinc.com/film-comment/article/never-the-twain-shall-meet David Bordwell, “Academics vs. Critics." Film Comment Magazine (May/June 2011). Web.] | |
==03.07.12: THP V: The Digital Age == | ==03.07.12: THP V: The Digital Age == | ||
'''Topics''' | '''Topics''' | ||
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+ | *Sara Müller: "Vernon God Little on Amazon" | ||
+ | *Simon Wehber: "Curious Incident on Amazon" | ||
+ | *Anna Lena Vetter: "The Curious Incident Online: Magazines, Blogs, and Databases" | ||
+ | *Rianne Wascher: "Math in The Curious Incident: Comparative Examination of the Discussion in Online and Print Media" | ||
'''Reading''' | '''Reading''' | ||
− | *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. | + | *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. |
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+ | *cf. also debate in German newspapers on controversial Amazon reviewing: [http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/top-rezensenten-man-benutzt-amazon-und-wird-benutzt-11761329.html FAZ.net], [http://www.zeit.de/2012/23/Interview-Amazon Zeit online] | ||
+ | *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/16/amazon-consumer-reviews-media-experts Alison Flood, "Amazon consumer book reviews as reliable as media experts", Guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 May 2012] | ||
+ | *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jan/30/critics-franzen-freedom-social-network Neal Gabler, "Everyone's a critic now", The Observer, Sunday 30 January 2011] | ||
+ | :*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jan/30/is-the-age-of-the-critic-over The Observer, "Is the age of the critic over?", Sunday 30 January 2011] | ||
+ | *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/apr/02/criticsvbloggerswhollwin Molly Flatt, "Critics v bloggers - who'll win?" Guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 April 2008] | ||
+ | *[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/25/world/booker-prize-is-tempest-tossed-will-it-go-to-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Richard Lea, "The blogosphere takes on the power of the press", Guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 November 2006] | ||
+ | *[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2003/09/book_report.html Adelle Waldman,"Book Report: How four magazines you've probably never read help determine what books you buy", Slate.com, Friday, 12 Sept 2003] | ||
'''Further Reading''' | '''Further Reading''' | ||
+ | *Critics Versus Bloggers: Pen to Keyboard Combat, K Weber - NewMedia, 2007 | ||
+ | *Private readings in public. Schooling the literary imagination, DJ Sumara - 1996 - Peter Lang | ||
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+ | *http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61073-2004Apr8¬Found=true | ||
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+ | *http://www.nber.org/papers/w10148.pdf?new_window=1 | ||
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+ | *http://wweb.uta.edu/management/Dr.Casper/Fall10/BSAD6314/BSAD%206314-Student%20Articles/Moderated%20Multiple%20Regression/moderation%20...pdf | ||
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+ | *http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=857505&download=yes | ||
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+ | *http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923608000754 | ||
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+ | *[http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=djLJm_5rg0sC&oi=fnd&pg=PA150&dq=literary+criticism+amazon+reviews&ots=7N4fiULXfS&sig=ts92XbThiv4WTZpl9hJUWAhPqFw#v=onepage&q=amazon&f=false "The Ethics of Reading: Witnessing Traumatic Childhoods."] | ||
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+ | *http://www.participations.org/Volume%205/Issue%202/5_02_steiner.htm | ||
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+ | *http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ925998&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ925998 | ||
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+ | *http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_book_review/v032/32.5.amerika.html | ||
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+ | *http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1766880&show=abstract | ||
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+ | *http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/4_1/chaves.html | ||
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+ | *http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09548963.2011.563922 | ||
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+ | *http://alcts.metapress.com/content/r481q05568087v23/ | ||
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+ | *http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00889.x/full | ||
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+ | *http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=JWGviENjgLsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=literary+criticism+amazon+reviews&ots=vblUkvn3lh&sig=2gED65-4GXi8B2aLkp7NNFbgwZY#v=onepage&q&f=false | ||
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+ | *http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=OL484NVVBiAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA161&dq=literary+criticism+amazon+reviews&ots=ulrkQVuAr-&sig=r2yDW2jnEeHoFrM-7Ld4aKg5xrI#v=onepage&q&f=false | ||
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+ | *http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204452104577056083369184616.html | ||
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+ | *http://www.pw.org/content/back_from_the_dead_the_state_of_book_reviewing_0?cmnt_all=1 | ||
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+ | *http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/business/media/slate-to-begin-a-monthly-review-of-books.html | ||
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+ | *http://www.themillions.com/2008/03/inter-alia-authority-anniversary-and.html | ||
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+ | *Critics Versus Bloggers: Pen to Keyboard Combat K Weber - NewMedia, 2007 | ||
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+ | *Private readings in public. Schooling the literary imagination DJ Sumara - 1996 - Peter Lang | ||
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+ | *Serials Review, Volume 29, Issue 3, Autumn 2003, Pages 237–242 Reviewing the Review Revues, Bob Persing | ||
[Hand in RPOs until 06 July] | [Hand in RPOs until 06 July] | ||
==10.07.12: Podium Discussion: The Role of the Critic == | ==10.07.12: Podium Discussion: The Role of the Critic == | ||
+ | *Questions and Ideas for Discussion: Henning Gruchot | ||
− | Podium discussion with | + | Podium discussion with [http://community.zeit.de/user/david-hugendick David Hugendick] |
==17.07.12: Final Discussion: The Role of the Critic & Term Papers== | ==17.07.12: Final Discussion: The Role of the Critic & Term Papers== | ||
+ | * Maren Zimmermann, Project Report: "The Role of (Online) Critics and Their Position in Literary Communication: A Survey" | ||
*discussion of RPOs | *discussion of RPOs | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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+ | *René Wellek. "A Historical Perspective: Literary Criticism." What Is Criticism? Ed. Paul Hernadi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. 297-321. | ||
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*Handout: [[(Non-)literary texts]] | *Handout: [[(Non-)literary texts]] | ||
*Handout: [[Narratology]] | *Handout: [[Narratology]] | ||
− | + | *Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_timeline_2.pdf Littheory and Movements] | |
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*"Criticism may have once been the meeting of two minds - the critic and the author - but now there are multiple authors and multiple critics." (Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, NY: New York University Press. p.128) | *"Criticism may have once been the meeting of two minds - the critic and the author - but now there are multiple authors and multiple critics." (Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, NY: New York University Press. p.128) | ||
*"[...] writing a piece of criticism is just writing a beautiful thing as a partner to a beautiful thing. I'm not interested in tearing it apart - though I think those critics are essential, and it's important that people separate the good from the bad; I don't believe in relativist criticism. I want to write about greatness, not mediocreness. There's no point." (Zadie Smith, qt. in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/sep/03/fiction.zadiesmith Guardian profile article, 2005]) | *"[...] writing a piece of criticism is just writing a beautiful thing as a partner to a beautiful thing. I'm not interested in tearing it apart - though I think those critics are essential, and it's important that people separate the good from the bad; I don't believe in relativist criticism. I want to write about greatness, not mediocreness. There's no point." (Zadie Smith, qt. in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/sep/03/fiction.zadiesmith Guardian profile article, 2005]) | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
− | *[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/01/i_like_dwight.html Timothy Noah, "I Like Dwight: Let us now praise Dwight Garner, New York Times daily book critic", Slate.com, Friday, Jan. | + | *[http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/09/confessions-of-another-book-reviewer/#disqus_thread Lev Grossman, "Books: Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer", TIME, 9 May 2012.] |
− | *[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/books/review/Tanenhaus-t.html The Editors, "Up Front: Why Criticism Matters", The New York Times: The Sunday Book Review, December 31, 2010] | + | *[http://entertainment.time.com/2012/02/08/beyond-good-and-awful-literary-value-in-the-age-of-the-amazon-review/ Lev Grossman, "Books: Beyond Good and Awful: Literary Value in the Age of the Amazon Review", TIME, 8 Feb 2012.] |
− | *[http:// | + | *[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/01/i_like_dwight.html Timothy Noah, "I Like Dwight: Let us now praise Dwight Garner, New York Times daily book critic", Slate.com, Friday, 7 Jan 2011.] |
− | *[http:// | + | *[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/books/review/Tanenhaus-t.html The Editors, "Up Front: Why Criticism Matters", The New York Times: The Sunday Book Review, December 31, 2010.] |
+ | *[http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/482507.html Susie Linfield, "A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?", An excerpt from The Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence, 2010.] | ||
+ | *[http://filer.case.edu/qxh4/ Qilei Hang, The Literary Debate Between Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett, August 6, 2005.], esp.[http://filer.case.edu/qxh4/testmouse1.htm timeline] | ||
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17.04.12: Introduction - The Critic as [...]critic, n.1 1. One who pronounces judgement on any thing or person; esp. one who passes severe or unfavourable judgement; a censurer, fault- finder, caviller. 1598 Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 171, I that haue been loues whip‥A Crietick, nay, a night-watch Constable. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes, Those notable Pirates in this our paper-sea, those sea-dogs, or lande-Critikes, monsters of men. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell To Rdr. sig. A4v, Take heed of Criticks. they bite (like fish) at any thing, especially at bookes. 1692 E. Walker tr. Epictetus Enchiridion xlix, Nor play the Critick, nor be apt to jeer. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 5 How strangely some words lose their primitive sense! By a Critick, was originally understood a good judge; with us nowadays it signifies no more than a Fault finder. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women (1777) I. iv. 192 We are never safe in the company of a critic. 2. One skilful in judging of the qualities and merits of literary or artistic works; one who writes upon the qualities of such works; a professional reviewer of books, pictures, plays, and the like; also one skilled in textual or biblical criticism. 1605 Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. K3v, Certaine Critiques are vsed to say‥That if all Sciences were lost, they might bee found in Virgill. 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris Introd. 7 To pass a Censure on all kinds of Writings, to shew their Excellencies and Defects, and especially to assign each‥to their proper Authors, was the chief Province‥of the Ancient Critics. 1780 Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 27 July, Mrs. Cholmondely‥told me I was the best critick in the world; and I told her, that nobody in the world could judge like her of the merit of a critick. 1825 Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 306 The poet, we believe, understood the nature of his art better than the critic [sc. Johnson]. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxxv, You know who the Critics are? The men who have failed in Literature and Art. 3. Comb. (freq. in appositive use). 1680 Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 16 A great Inhabiter of the Pit; Where Critick-like, he sits and squints. 1754 W. Cowper in W. Hayley Life W.C. (1803) I. 16 This simile were apt enough, But I've another, critic-proof! 1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 14/2 There have been murmurs‥against the critic-dramatist. 1938 H. Read Coll. Ess. Lit. Crit. i. i. 17 When such a critic-poet attempts to probe down into such a fundamental question as the form and structure of poetry. 1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 11 40 Critic-centred comments on the text. (Second edition, 1989; online version December 2011. <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/44587>; accessed 23 February 2012. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1893.)
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Further Reading 01.05.12: no course08.05.12: Contemporary Criticism: VGL IITopics
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Further Reading 15.05.12: Contemporary Criticism: CI ITopics Reading
Further Reading 22.05.12: Contemporary Criticism: CI IITopics Reading
Further Reading [Specify research interest until 25 May] 29.05.12: Contemporary Criticism: Academic Criticism of CI and VGLTopics
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Reading VGL
Reading CI
Further Reading 05.06.12: Traditions and Historical Perspectives I: The Function of CriticismTopics
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12.06.12: THP II: The Role of the Critic in Literary CommunicationTopics
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Reading Further Reading
19.06.12: THP III: Criticism and IdeologyTopics
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26.06.12: THP IV: Media vs. AcademiaTopics
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Further Reading 03.07.12: THP V: The Digital AgeTopics Presenters
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see also:
[Hand in RPOs until 06 July] 10.07.12: Podium Discussion: The Role of the Critic
Podium discussion with David Hugendick 17.07.12: Final Discussion: The Role of the Critic & Term Papers
[Hand in seminar papers until 31 August] BibliographyNovels
Criticism of VGL and Criticism of CI Further Reading
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