Said, Edward W.

The world, the text, and the critic / Edward W. Said. - vi, 327 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: secular criticism -- The world, the text, and the critic -- Swift's Tory anarchy -- Swift as intellectual -- Conrad: the presentation of narrative -- On repetition -- On originality -- Roads taken and not taken in contemporary criticism -- Reflections on American "Left" literary criticism -- Criticism between culture and system -- Traveling theory -- Raymond Schwab and the romance of ideas -- Islam, philology, and French culture: Renan and Massignon -- Conclusion: religious criticism.



0674961862 9780674961869 0674961870 (paper) 9780674961876 (paper)

82011969


Criticism.
Literature--History and criticism.

PN81 / .S223 1983

801.95