9780231059374
Beginnings: Intention and Method
Edward Said
ISBN 13: 9780231059374
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Softcover
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"Readers who have never stopped to think about the different points at which a work might be said to begin (at the first word/ at the author's idea? at the formation of a literary mode? at the beginning of a historical period?) will be surprised, stimulated, instructed, impressed."
New Yorker
Review:"Said's attempt is to recapture the modern writer's aims in beginning his work and to affirm the validity of creative intentions....It is the sense of total independence and, at times, of prophetic visions, which make ["Beginnings"] such exhilarating reading."
Times Higher Education Supplement
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Book Description: The University Press Group Ltd, United States, 1985. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 158 x 127 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of beginning through history. A beginning is a first step in the intentional production of meaning and the production of difference from preexisting traditions. It authorizes subsequent texts -- it both enables them and limits what is acceptable. Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Husserl, and Foucault, Said recognizes the novel as the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing function in experience, art, and knowledge. Scholarship should see itself as a beginning -- as a uniting of theory and practice.Said's insistence on a criticism that is humane and socially responsible is what makes Beginnings a book about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from human intention and the method of its fulfillment. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780231059374 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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