Performative Criticism
Performative Criticism
ISBN: 9780791459447
出版社: State Univ of New York Pr
出版年: 2004-2
页数: 236
定价: $ 33.84
装帧: Pap
内容简介
In these inventive and genre-bending critical essays, Gerry Brenner provides fresh interpretations of classic literary works by empowering significant characters to represent themselves as legitimate readers with strong responses. Through imaginary interviews, letters, dialogues of the dead," a revised ending, and a training report, he gives voice to characters from the biblical Book of Ruth, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Maltese Falcon, and others. Instead of asking readers to read "his Interpretation of a text (Le, a critic's interpretation "from the outside), Brenner asks them to read a character's or historical or imagined person's interpretation (a reader-response interpretation "from the inside). Challenging the long-dominant depersonalization of literary criticism, Brenner enlivens the affeZ1, value, and significance of scholarly and critical writing.