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Author:   David Fuller (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham) ,  Patricia Waugh (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9780198186397

ISBN 10:   0198186398
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   17 June 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: David Fuller and Patricia Waugh: Introduction Part I: Criticism and the History and Philosophy of Science 2: Patricia Waugh: Revising the Two Cultures Debate: Science, Literature and Value 3: David Cooper: Science, Interpretation and Criticism 4: Raymond Tallis: Evidence-based and Evidence-free Generalisations: a Tale of Two Cultures 5: Jacques Berthoud: Science and the Self: Lacan's doctrine of the Signifier Part II: Criticism and the Aesthetic 6: Michael O'Neill: Poetry as Literary Criticism 7: David Lodge: Criticism and Creation 8: Doris Lessing: Writing Autobiography 9: Paul H. Fry: Beneath Interpretation: Intention and the Experience of Literature 10: David Fuller: Poetry, Music and the Sacred Part III: Criticism and the Ethical 11: Séan Burke: The Aesthetic, the Cognitive and the Ethical: Criticism and Discursive Responsibility 12: Timothy Clark: Literature and the Crisis in the Concept of the University 13: Michael Bell: The Metaphysics of Modernism: Aesthetic Myth and the Myth of the Aesthetic

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finely edited and spirited collection of essays on the limitations and possibilites of literary criticism ... In these essays the author is alive and well, aestheic knowledge is distinguished from science, there is a humanistic understanding of consciousness and a notion of purpose, meaning and aesthetic delight. Mary Tomlinson, THES 5/11/99 highly commendable book HJEAS

finely edited and spirited collection of essays on the limitations and possibilites of literary criticism ... In these essays the author is alive and well, aestheic knowledge is distinguished from science, there is a humanistic understanding of consciousness and a notion of purpose, meaning and aesthetic delight. Mary Tomlinson, THES 5/11/99 highly commendable book HJEAS

Author Information

Fuller: Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, 1971-9; University of Durham, 1980- (Lecturer, 1980-90; Senior Lecturer, 1990-6; Reader, 1996-) Waugh: University of Sunderland, 1980-9; University of Durham, 1989-

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