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Beginnings: Intention and Method.
by Said, Edward W
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- Paperback
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1862071608
- ISBN 13
- 9781862071605
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About This Item
London: Granta Books, 1997. 1st U.K. ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 416 pp. Edward W. Said brings together history, philosophy, structuralism and critical theory in a stimulating work of literary criticism. The author argues that during the 18th and 19th centuries, the novel was the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing, institutional and specialized role in art, experience and knowledge. He traces this idea through the late 19th and early 20th centuries - to Freud's discoveries and the novels of modernist authors - and examines the question of beginnings in critical discourse, and the work of the French structuralists. He combines philosophy and belles-lettres, and does not separate literature from history, philosophy and social discourse, thereby broadening the role of criticism from celebration and orthodoxy to re-experiencing and questioning.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30296
- Title
- Beginnings: Intention and Method.
- Author
- Said, Edward W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st U.K. ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1862071608
- ISBN 13
- 9781862071605
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- literature criticism, history, philosophy, structuralism, critical theory, art
- Bookseller catalogs
- SOCIETY & SOCIOLOGY;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...