2012 AM The Role of the Critic - Revision history

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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

			*http://www.themillions.com/2008/03/inter-alia-authority-anniversary-and.html

	see also:		see also:

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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

			see also:
			*Critics Versus Bloggers: Pen to Keyboard Combat K Weber - NewMedia, 2007

			*Private readings in public. Schooling the literary imagination DJ Sumara - 1996 - Peter Lang

			*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]

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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

			[Hand in seminar papers until 31 August]

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
	*"The critical power is of lower rank than the creative. True; but in assenting to this proposition, one or two things are to be kept in mind. It is undeniable that the exercise of a creative power, that a free creative activity, is the true function of man; it is proved to be so by man’s finding in it his true happiness. But it is undeniable, also, that men may have the sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art; if it were not so, all but a very few men would be shut out from the true happiness of all men." (Matthew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, 1864)
	*"Our fundamental want today in the United States, with closest, amplest reference to present conditions, and to the future, is of a class, and the clear idea of a class, of native authors, literatuses, far different, far higher in grade than any yet known, sacerdotal, modern, fit to cope with our occasions, lands, permeating the whole mass of American mentality, taste, belief, breathing into it a new breath of life, giving it decision, affecting politics far more than the popular superficial suffrage, with results inside and underneath the elections of presidents or Congresses — radiating, begetting appropriate teachers, schools, manners, and, as its grandest result, accomplishing (what neither the schools nor the churches and their clergy have hitherto accomplish’d, and without which this nation will no more stand, permanently, soundly, than a house will stand without a substratum) a religious and moral character beneath the political and productive and intellectual bases of the States. For know you not, dear, earnest reader, that the people of our land may all read and write, and may all possess the right to vote — and yet the main things may be entirely lacking?" (Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871)
	*"To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious resemblance to the thing it criticizes. The one characteristic of a beautiful form is that one can put into it whatever one wishes, and see in it whatever one chooses to see; and the Beauty, that gives to creation its universal and aesthetic element, makes the critic a creator in his turn, and whispers of a thousand different things which were not present in the mind of him who carved the statue or painted the panel or graved the gem." (Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890)
	*"The most important qualification which I have been able to find, which accounts for the peculiar importance of the criticism of practitioners, is that a critic must have a very highly developed sense of fact. This is by no means a trifling or frequent gift. And it is not one which easily wins popular commendations. The sense of fact is very slow to develop, and its complete development means perhaps the very pinnacle of civilization." (T.S. Eliot, The Function of Criticism, 1923)
	*"The job of criticism would seem to be, then, to recall liberalism to its first essential imagination of variousness and possibility, which implies the awareness of complexity and difficulty. To the carrying out of the job of criticizing the liberal imagination, literature has a unique relevance, not merely because so much of modern literature has explicitly directed itself upon politics, but more importantly because literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity and difficulty." (Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950)
	*"Criticism demands of the critic a terrible nakedness: a real critic has no one but himself to depend on. He can never forget that all he has to go by, finally, is his own response, the self that makes and is made up of such responses — and yet he must regard that self as no more than the instrument through which the art is seen, so that the work of art will seem everything to him and his own self nothing." (RAndall Jarrell, The Age of Criticism, 1952)
	*"Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and those which presently exist, between the past and the present out of which the future must be born. This struggle with oneself as well as with the age, out of which something must be written and which therefore can be read — this is my test for a critic." (Alfred Kazin, The Function of Criticism Today,1960)
	*"The role of the critic is therefore that of participation in the re-creation and expansion of the poet's text. Don Quijote is far more complex and a far richer work of art today than in the time of Cervantes." (Valdés 1986)
	*"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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 '''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.
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 *http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/business/media/slate-to-begin-a-monthly-review-of-books.html
       [Hand in RPOs until 06 July]

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	'''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

	*http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61073-2004Apr8¬Found=true		*http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61073-2004Apr8¬Found=true

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	'''Further Reading'''		'''Further Reading'''
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61073-2004Apr8¬Found=true		*http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61073-2004Apr8¬Found=true

	http://www.nber.org/papers/w10148.pdf?new_window=1		*http://www.nber.org/papers/w10148.pdf?new_window=1

	http://wweb.uta.edu/management/Dr.Casper/Fall10/BSAD6314/BSAD%206314-Student%20Articles/Moderated%20Multiple%20Regression/moderation%20...pdf		*http://wweb.uta.edu/management/Dr.Casper/Fall10/BSAD6314/BSAD%206314-Student%20Articles/Moderated%20Multiple%20Regression/moderation%20...pdf

	http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=857505&download=yes		*http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=857505&download=yes

	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923608000754		*http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923608000754

	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		*[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."]

			*http://www.participations.org/Volume%205/Issue%202/5_02_steiner.htm

			*http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ925998&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ925998

			*http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_book_review/v032/32.5.amerika.html

			*http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1766880&show=abstract

			*http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/4_1/chaves.html

			*http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09548963.2011.563922

			*http://alcts.metapress.com/content/r481q05568087v23/

			*http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00889.x/full

			*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

			*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

			*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204452104577056083369184616.html

			*http://www.pw.org/content/back_from_the_dead_the_state_of_book_reviewing_0?cmnt_all=1

			*http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/business/media/slate-to-begin-a-monthly-review-of-books.html

	*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]		*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]

Anna Auguscik at 11:29, 5 July 2012

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 '''Further Reading'''
 *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]

Anna Auguscik at 08:23, 2 July 2012

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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, 7 Jan 2011]		*[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://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://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://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]		*[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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	*Mareike Wille: "Media vs. Academia in Film Criticism" (cf. Bordwell)		*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)		*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, ~~represenations~~ of autism and disability studies"		*Esther Themann: "CI, representations of autism and disability studies"

	'''Reading'''		'''Reading'''
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	'''Further Reading'''		'''Further Reading'''
	*[http://www.filmlinc.com/film-comment/article/never-the-twain-shall-meet David Bordwell, “Academics vs. Critics." Film Comment Magazine (May/June 2011). Web.]		*[http://www.filmlinc.com/film-comment/article/never-the-twain-shall-meet David Bordwell, “Academics vs. Critics." Film Comment Magazine (May/June 2011). Web.]

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Anna Auguscik at 17:59, 25 June 2012

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	'''Presenters'''		'''Presenters'''
	*Matthias Heyn: "René Wellek's Historical Perspective"		*Matthias Heyn: "René Wellek's Historical Perspective"
	*"The Function of Criticism: Arnold and Eliot"		*Patrick Ernst: "The Function of Criticism: Arnold and Eliot"
	*Simon Fischer: "The Function of Criticism: Terry Eagleton"		*Simon Fischer: "The Function of Criticism: Terry Eagleton"

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	*Anna Lena Vetter: "The Curious Incident Online: Magazines, Blogs, and Databases"		*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"		*Rianne Wascher: "Math in The Curious Incident: Comparative Examination of the Discussion in Online and Print Media"


	'''Reading'''		'''Reading'''
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	'''Further Reading'''		'''Further Reading'''
			*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/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/critics-franzen-freedom-social-network Neal Gabler, "Everyone's a critic now", The Observer, Sunday 30 January 2011]