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*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] | ||
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*http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/business/media/slate-to-begin-a-monthly-review-of-books.html | *http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/business/media/slate-to-begin-a-monthly-review-of-books.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 | ||
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* Maren Zimmermann, Project Report: "The Role of (Online) Critics and Their Position in Literary Communication: A Survey" | * 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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*"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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Contents
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.)
24.04.12: Contemporary Criticism: VGL ITopics
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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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Reading
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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
Tools
Quotes
Ideas
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