Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power
- ISBN-10
- 0822325225
- ISBN-13
- 9780822325222
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-06
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Paul A. Bové
Description
DIVA distinguished panel of contributors assess and expand Edward Said’s many contributions to the study of colonialism, imperialism and representation that have marked his career-long struggle to end conflict and further the effort to build civilizati/div
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2000-05-11
- 326 pages
- Ebook
- Duke University Press
Similar books
-
The World, the Text, and the Critic
By Edward W. Said12 Islam , Philology , and French Culture : Renan and Massignon Rand embarrassedt way in which his catalogues of English provincialism in culture are compared with the maturity and finish of either French or German culture .
-
Orientalism
By Edward W. Said... 232; and Victorian imperialism, 14, 206–7 RAND Corporation, 295,349 Ranke, Leopold von, 95,208,304 Raphael, 69 regeneration: of Asia by Europe, 154, 158, 172, 206; of Europe by Asia, 113, 114, 115; in 19thcentury Romanticism, 114–5, ...
-
Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism
By H. Aram VeeserThe candid tale of Said's rise from elite academic precincts to the world stage transforms not only our understanding of Said—the man and the myth—but also our perception of how intellectuals can make their way in the world.
-
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
By Ibn WarraqWith this important new book Ibn Warraq has once and for all dispatched Orientalism to the dustbin of history.
-
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
By Timothy BrennanIn this authoritative work, Said, the pioneer of postcolonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-doubting, tender, eloquent advocate of literature’s dramatic effects on ...
-
Humanism and Democratic Criticism
By Edward W. SaidThe final collection of writings by the late intellectual and author of Culture and Imperialism emphasizes the importance of humanism in today's complex, dangerous, and high-tech world, explaining why humanistic values and democratic ...
-
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
By Ibn WarraqThis is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, Orientalism, a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than...
-
Culture and Imperialism
By Edward W. SaidEdward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance.
-
Edward Said
By Bill Ashcroft, Pal AhluwaliaLooking at the context and the impact of Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said's key ideas, including: the significance of 'worldliness', 'amateurism', 'secular criticism', 'affiliation' and 'contrapuntal reading' the ...
-
The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006
By Edward W. SaidThis comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source.