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"Impressive in scope and erudition, Christopher Knight's Uncommon Readers focuses on three critics whose voices - mixing eloquence with pugnacity - stand out as among the most notable independent critics working during the last half-century. The critics are Denis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, and George Steiner, and their independence - a striking characteristic in a time of corporate criticism - is reflective of both their backgrounds (Donoghue's Catholic upbringing in Protestant-ruled Northern Ireland; Kermode's Manx beginnings; and Steiner's Jewish upbringing in pre-Holocaust Europe) and their temperaments. Each represents a party of one, a fact that has, on the one hand, made them the object of the occasional vituperative dismissal and, on the other, contributed to their influence and remarkable longevity." "Since the 1950s, Steiner, Donoghue, and Kermode have each maintained a highly public profile, regularly contributing to such influential publications as Encounter, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. This aspect of their work receives particular attention in Uncommon Readers, for it illustrates a renewed interest in the role of the public critic, especially in relation to the genre of the literary-review essay, and signals a sustained conversation with an educated public - namely the common reader." "Knight makes the argument for the review essay as a serious and still viable genre, and he examines the three critics in light of this assumption. He expounds upon the critics' separate interests - Kermode's identification with discussions of canonicity, Steiner's with cultural politics, and Donoghue's with the persistent claims of the imagination - while also revealing the ways in which their work often reflects theological interests. Lastly, he attempts to adjudicate some of the conflicts that have arisen between these critics and other literary theorists (especially the post-structuralists), and to discuss the question of whether it is still possible for critics to work independently. Original and deliberative, Uncommon Readers presents a renewed defense of the tradition of the common reader."--Jacket.

Criticism --- Book reviewing --- Reviewing of books --- Books --- History --- Evaluation --- Donoghue, Denis. --- Kermode, Frank, --- Steiner, George, --- Steiner, G. --- Kermode, John Frank, --- Donoghue, Denis --- 028 --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- Steiner, George

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Kermode, Frank --- Frye, Northrop --- Gombrich, Ernst H. --- Said, Edward W. --- Canon (Literature) --- Criticism --- Literature, Modern --- History --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Saïd, Edward Wadie, --- Gombrich, E. H. --- 82.0 --- -Literature, Modern --- -Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Style, Literary --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Literatuurtheorie --- -History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- Appraisal --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Frye, Northrop. --- Frye, Herman Northrop --- Fulai, Nuosiluopu --- Farāy, Nūrtrūp --- فراى، نورتروپ --- Aiḍvarḍ Saʻīd --- Saʻīd, Aiḍvarḍ --- Saʻīd, Idwārd W. --- Saidŭ --- Sayide, Aidehua --- סעיד, אדוארד --- سعيد، إدوارد --- سعيد، إدوارد و. --- سعيد، ادورد --- 薩依德艾德華 --- Theory, etc. --- -Literatuurtheorie --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- Canon (Literature). --- -Classics, Literary --- Modern literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Kermode, Frank, --- Kermode, John Frank, --- Frai, Nort'rop --- פריי, נורתרופ‏ --- Said, Edward Wadie --- Said, Eduardo