Creative Criticism
eBook - PDF

Creative Criticism

An Anthology and Guide

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Creative Criticism

An Anthology and Guide

About this book

A guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing, with sample texts from writer/critics, including Anne Carson, Jacques Derrida, Geoff Dyer, HÊlène Cixous, Ali Smith and John Cage. Designed for students, teachers and critics of literature and creative writing, and especially students who are required to write critical essays.

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barthes
5. 
Or 
again: 
is 
not 
thus 
the 
friend? 
He 
who 
can 
leave 
for 
a 
while 
without 
his 
image 
crumbling? 
‘We 
were 
friends 
and 
have 
become 
estranged. 
But 
this 
was 
right, 
and 
we 
do 
not 
want 
to 
conceal 
and 
obscure 
it 
from 
ourselves 
as 
if 
we 
had 
reason 
to 
feel 
ashamed. 
We 
are 
two 
ships 
each 
of 
which 
has 
its 
goal 
and 
course; 
our 
paths 
may 
cross 
and 
we 
may 
celebrate 
a 
feast 
together, 
as 
we 
did 
– 
and 
then 
the 
good 
ships 
rested 
so 
quietly 
in 
one 
harbor 
and 
one 
sunshine 
that 
it 
may 
have 
looked 
as 
if 
they 
had 
reached 
their 
goal 
and 
as 
if 
they 
had 
one 
goal. 
But 
then 
the 
mighty 
force 
of 
our 
tasks 
drove 
us 
apart 
again 
into 
different 
seas 
and 
sunny 
zones, 
and 
perhaps 
we 
shall 
never 
see 
each 
other 
again; 
perhaps 
we 
shall 
meet 
again 
but 
fail 
to 
recognize 
each 
other: 
our 
exposure 
to 
different 
seas 
and 
suns 
has 
changed 
us.’
nietzsche: 
‘Star 
Friendship,’ 
The 
Gay 
Science
.
Nietzsche

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. A Note on the Texts
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
  7. 2. John Cage, from ‘Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?’
  8. 3. Anne Carson, ‘Every Exit Is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)’
  9. 4. Hélène Cixous, ‘Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off’
  10. 5. Jacques Derrida, ‘Aphorism Countertime’
  11. 6. Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
  12. 7. Benjamin Friedlander, ‘Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism’
  13. 8. Peter Gizzi, ‘Correspondences of the Book’
  14. 9. Kevin Kopelson, ‘Music Lessons’
  15. 10. Denise Riley, ‘Lyric Selves’
  16. 11. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’
  17. 12. Ali Smith, ‘Green’
  18. 13. John Wilkinson, ‘Imperfect Pitch’
  19. 14. Sarah Wood, ‘Anew Again’
  20. Index