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Said, Edward W.

 
9780593687901: The World, the Text, and the Critic
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ISBN 10: 0593687906 ISBN 13: 9780593687901
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025

Sinopsis

A sweeping and intellectually rigorous work of literary criticism that moves the field forward, from one of the preeminent public scholars

“[Said’s] book is relaxed and discursive, original, immensely learned, fluently written.”?John Bayley, The New York Times Book Review

Edward W. Said, author of Beginnings and the controversial yet seminal Orientalism, is one of the most acclaimed public intellectuals of our time. In this sweeping and rigorous work of literary criticism, he pushes the field even further forward. Moving from Derrida to Foucault, from Marxism to psychoanalysis, and from Swift to Conrad, Said argues that the dogmas of the dominant culture have crippled our engagement with literature, forcing a text to meet the requirements of theory while ignoring the tethers that bind it to the living world.

Provocatively, Said advocates for freedom of consciousness and for responsiveness to history; to the exigencies of the text; to political, social, and human values; and to the heterogeneity of human experience. The World, the Text, and the Critic asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.

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EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into thirty-five languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). He died in 2003 in New York City.

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Editorial
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2025
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ISBN 10 
0593687906
ISBN 13 
9780593687901
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Número de páginas
353
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