Description
In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's criticism disproves and questions several assumptions that a serious and
original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism can't be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a writer reflecting on their own position and practice cannot be more than a testimony of their work, but open up how we think of literary history
and reading. Illuminating new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions, Chaudhuri shows us again that he takes nothing as a given: literary tradition, the prevalent definitions of writing and culture; and the way the market determines the way culture and language
express themselves. He asks us to look again at what we mean by the modern, and how it might be possible to think of the literary today.
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2018
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780198793823
ISBN10: 0198793820
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism can't be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a writer reflecting on their own position and practice cannot be more than a testimony of their work, but open up how we think of literary history
and reading. Illuminating new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions, Chaudhuri shows us again that he takes nothing as a given: literary tradition, the prevalent definitions of writing and culture; and the way the market determines the way culture and language
express themselves. He asks us to look again at what we mean by the modern, and how it might be possible to think of the literary today.
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2018
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780198793823
ISBN10: 0198793820
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
About the Author
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. He is also a critic and a musician and composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.