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American literary life has been enriched over the past generation by habits of criticism practiced at Amherst College during the tenure of William H. Pritchard. These essays, which were commissioned as a tribute to Pritchard, celebrate his fortieth year at Amherst and demonstrate the breadth of his influence in the fields of theory, criticism, and pedagogy.
The occasion of forty years of teaching at Amherst by William H. Pritchard, the renowned critic of Frost, Jarrell, and many others, has generated a remarkable collection of essays by former students, colleagues, and friends.
The essays themselves are a spectrum of contemporary criticism, ranging from classroom memoirs to analytic essay in criticism to assessment of the state of academic letters today. These contributions, a tribute, by reason of their very range, are a salute to the breadth of William Pritchard’s circle of literary acquaintance. Under Criticism demonstrates the fine persistence in certain manners of approach and habits of focus that go, among that circle, under the name of criticism.
Drawing foremost on their engagement with the literature before them, Christopher Ricks, Helen Vendler, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Neil Hertz, David Ferry, Paul Alpers, Joseph Epstein, and Frank Lentricchia—as well as fifteen other critics and men and women of letters—reinforce Professor Pritchard’s prescription that in order to have a hearing, the critic needs to keep listening.
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About the Author
William H. Pritchard is the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College. He is the author of two important biographies, "Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered "and "Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life," He reviews regularly for the "New York Times Book Review," and his literary criticism is published in the "New Republic," "Hudson Review," "American Scholar," and the "Boston Sunday Globe," His most recent book, "Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews," has been well received.
Sofield is Samuel Wilson Professor of English at Amherst College
Herbert F. Tucker is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he is also Associate Editor of "New Literary History." His previous publications include "Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure" (1980), "Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism" (1988) and "Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson" (1993).
Herbert Tucker grew up in New England and was educated at Moses Brown School, Amherst College, and Yale University. He has served on the faculty at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan and, since 1986, the University of Virginia, where in 2003 he was named to the John C. Coleman
Chair in English. At Virginia he is an associate editor for the journal New Literary History and a series editor of Victorian Literature and Culture for the University Press.
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- PublisherOhio University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0821412248
- ISBN 13 9780821412244
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages329
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Condition: Gut. IX, 320 S. / p. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Leading literary critics, important writers and reviewers, and distinguished scholars grace a remarkable collection of essays on reading, writing, and teaching - and on a set of relations among these activities that has animated academic and publishing circles in America for half a century. The collection marks forty years of teaching at Amherst College by William H. Pritchard, Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, whose many books include W. B. Teats: A Critical Anthology; Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life; Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews; Lives of the Modern Poets; Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered; and his teaching autobiography, English Papers: A Teaching Life. -- Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard boasts a literary-historical sweep that goes beyond even Pritchard's own; in format the collection represents a spectrum of contemporary criticism ranging from classroom memoirs to analytic essays-in-criticism to assessment of the state of academic letters today Some of these various tales out of school are highly personal, and as a group they exhibit considerable ideological divergence. Marxist, humanist, phenomenologist, deconstructionist, feminist, classicist, postmodernist, and revanchist positions all are aired. -- Many of the writers gathered here have had a role in literary education at Amherst. All share certain manners of approach and habits of focus: crisp and frank judgment, a spirit of decency, a disposition to wield ideas as tools of criticism and not vice versa. As Herbert E Tucker says in his introduction, criticism desires "to hail creative power by responding to it as if for the first time. Because criticism may stop at nothing, original response means taking even the hallowed classic or finished masterpiece as an open question that needs to be talked back to. Join this game and you find yourself under criticism." -- Under Criticism appears at a moment when American literary life needs reminding about the habits of attention to word and voice that Amherst in William Pritchard's day has stood for, and that the contributors at once discuss and exemplify. It will serve well readers who are interested in theory, criticism, pedagogy, and the wider realm of letters. - Contents -- Herbert F. Tucker -- Introduction: Counter-Love, Original Response -- I -- Lessons: Criticism in Training -- William J. Pritchard -- Hearing Voices -- Roger Sale -- On Not Teaching at Amherst College -- William Toungren -- Pritchard, English 1, and Me -- Fred Pfeil -- The Passing of the Ice Ball; or, Appreciating Bill -- Rand Richards Cooper -- Living in the Gap -- Helen Deutsch -- "Since Our Knowledge Is Historical": -- Homage to William H. Pritchard -- Howell Chickering -- Chaucer by Heart -- Joseph Epstein -- Is God Dead, Frosty? Reflections on Teaching Helen Vendler -- Harvard Graduate School, 1956-60 -- II -- Professions: Criticism in Question -- Frank Lentricchia -- Last Will and Testament of an Ex-Literary Critic Alan Eelchuk -- The End of the Art of Reading? A Modest Polemic IV. E. Kennick -- Who Needs Literary Theory? -- Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Reading Dr. Johnson: A Confession -- Paul Alpers -- Leavis Today -- III -- Readings: Criticism in Practice -- David Ferry -- Notes on "Translating" the Gilgamesh Epic Peter R. Pouncey -- Plutarch on the Sign of Socrates -- Neil Hertz -- Voices of Two or Three Different Natures -- Francis Murphy -- Poor Strether -- Anne Ferry -- Frost's "Land of The Golden Treasury" -- Christopher Benfey -- "The Wife of Eli Whitney": Jarrell and Dickinson -- Christopher Ricks -- The Lesson -- David Sofield -- Richard Wilbur's "Lying" -- Contributors -- Index. ISBN 9780821412244 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 724 Originalleinen kaschiert mit Originalschutzumschlag / Original cloth laminated with original dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1235349
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