{"product_id":"the-intimate-critique-autobiographical-literary-criticism-paperback","title":"The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane P. Freedman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts-above all, \"objectivity\"-seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. \u003ci\u003eThe Intimate Critique\u003c\/i\u003e marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life.\u003cbr\u003eGrounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume-including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim-respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result-which has been referred to as \"personal writing,\" \"experimental critical writing,\" or \"intellectual autobiography\"-maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrouped together, these very different essays raise and respond to a question that feminist theorists continue to ask--about the extent to which individual experience and self-expression may be read as representative.--Rachel M. Brownstein, author of \"Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane P. Freedman, Assistant Professor of English at University of New Hampshire, is the author of \u003ci\u003eAn Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Women Poet Critics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlivia Frey is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at St. Olaf College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrances Murphy Zauhar is Assistant Professor of English at St. Vincent College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 9.3 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 08, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801456795955,"sku":"9780822312925","price":63.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ky3VF5B5hy9780822312925.webp?v=1785968901","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-intimate-critique-autobiographical-literary-criticism-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}