Criticism between Opposition and Counterpoint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Arac (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 55 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303614 |
| OpenAlex | W2317200522 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
My title signals a line of thought that has been provoked by the recent work of Edward Said. I will begin by reflecting on some of the terms he deploys to characterize the activity of criticism, and then I will explore their uses as a perspective on my recent book, Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target. This consideration of Said's work and my own proved surprisingly timely, as I was completing this essay, with new developments in the public sphere of my home state, Pennsylvania. I will conclude with these recent developments. Said has long insisted that the fundamental role of the critic is opposition. As he puts it in the introduction to The World, the Text, and the Critic, Were I to use one word consistently along with criticism (not as a modi
Aesthetics · Art · Counterpoint · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Opposition (politics · Political science · Sociology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |