Introduction / Jane Gallop -- Uncritical Reading / Michael Warner -- Reading as Self-Annihilation / Amy Hollywood -- "Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio" : Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Romance / Helen Deutsch -- Argument and Ethos / Amanda Anderson -- Can Polemic Be Ethical? : A Response to Michel Foucault / Jonathan Crewe -- Kael's Attack on Sarris / Louis Menand -- "What is Enlightenment?" : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Conversing with Jane Gallop.
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These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters e.g. Habermas, and Boswell with (or vs.) Dr. Johnson. Historically rigorous and astute, this makes criticism a critical issue.
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Title
Polemic.
International Standard Book Number
0415972280
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Books and reading.
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.