The Critical Romance: The Critic As Reader, Writer, Hero

Mileur, Jean-Pierre

ISBN 10: 0299124142 / ISBN 13: 9780299124144

Published by The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990

About this Item

Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Front wrap rubbed. Clean, unmarked pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Critical Romance: The Critic As Reader, Writer, Hero
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299124142
• ISBN 13: 9780299124144
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 12 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature and Criticism

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Synopsis

Jean-Pierre Mileur asserts that “the literary tradition, the great tradition of the Romantics, is now being carried on by criticism,” and that modern criticism “is a late Romantic literary genre, a distinctive form of the romance.” By collapsing the boundaries between the literary and the literary-critical traditions, Mileur embarks on a thought-provoking analysis of literary criticism. Criticism becomes a modern version of the age-old quest romance, and the critic becomes a romantic hero—a brooding figure fraught with self-doubt who strives, like Browning’s Childe Roland, despite knowledge of certain failure.
     The Critical Romance is an exciting intervention in the critical study of criticism, and makes a significant contribution to the study of Romanticism as well.

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Mileur is professor and chair of the English department at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Case: Philosophy as/and Literature, Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity, and Vision and Revision: Coleridge’s Art of Immanence.