Amanda Anderson (1)
Auteur de The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory
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A propos de l'auteur
Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon professor of Humanities and English and the director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, The way Argue Now: A study in the Cultures of Theory.
Œuvres de Amanda Anderson
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
Membres
Critiques
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 104
- Popularité
- #184,481
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 48
Anderson makes a couple good critical moves that make this book very worthwhile. One is that she takes the authors she studies and turn their concepts back on themselves, pointing out that though Dickens may lambast certain forms of detachment in his novels, his novels are just as detached in ways that have more in common more than they differ.
Secondly, she's not afraid to advance a position: The Powers of Distance doesn't just analyze detachment, it attempts to reclaim the practice from the bad reputation that (she argues) it has unjustly received in modern critical circles. (I largely agree with her on this point.) She points out that modern critics love irony, which is another form of detachment of course, but also that irony is cheap: you can critique one thing without having to embrace another. Stop being afraid of commitment! Detachment is acceptable, and the fact that it occasionally or even always fails doesn't stop aspiring to it from being worthwhile.… (plus d'informations)