What is criticism
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Bloomington Indiana, USA
Format: Hardcover
Table of contents: title: Problem of the problem of criticism / Francis Sparshott -- Logic of the question "What is criticism?" / John M. Ellis -- Demonstration versus persuasion : two models of critical activity / Stanley Fish -- Three notions about criticism / Morse Peckham -- Criticism, pleasure, and truth : a typology of critical statements / Marie-Laure Ryan -- What can structuralism do for us? / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Critical truth as necessary error / Wallace Martin -- Viva voce : criticism and the teaching of literature / Roger Shattuck -- Criticism, indeterminacy, irony / Geoffrey Hartman -- A functional view of criticism / Mario Valdes -- Literature and hermeneutics / Hans Robert Jauss -- Name and nature of criticism / Monroe Beardsley -- Criticulture : or, why we need at least three criticisms at the present time / Wayne C. Booth -- Art without critics and critics without readers / Mary Pratt -- Social relations of criticism / Richard Ohmann -- A search for subjective truth / Martin Esslin -- Criticism and its institutional situations / Herbert Lindenberg -- On feminist criticism / Cathrine Stimpson -- Criticism as transaction / Norman Holland -- On whether criticism is literature / Cary Nelson -- Criticism is the (dis)closure of meaning / Michael McCanles -- Criticism as a secondary art / Murray Krieger.