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The critic has long been a reviled figure, at best the mere handmaiden of the "creative" arts, at worst a parasite upon them. For Brendan Behan, critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it is done. They have seen it done every day.

But they are unable to do it themselves. In an age of book clubs, celebrity endorsements and bloggers, what role is there now for the professional critic as an arbiter of artistic value? Are literature and the arts merely a question of personal taste? Is one opinion "as good as another"? Rnn McDonald's The Death of the Critic seeks to defend the role of the public critic. He argues against recent claims that all artistic value is simply relative and subjective. This forceful, accessible and eloquent book considers why high profile, public critics such as William E mpson, F.R. Leavis or Lionel Trilling, become much rarer in the later twentieth century. Alert to the cultural and academic climate of both the UK and the USA, this controversial and timely intervention will engage scholars, students, critics and anyone concerned with the role of literary and artistic culture in the public sphere.

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  • Title Death of the Critic
  • Author Ronan McDonald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication date 2009-05-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780826492807 / 0826492800
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008299302
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.950

About the author

Ronan McDonald is Senior Lecturerat the University of Reading, UK. His interests include the history of twentieth-century literary criticism, especially its intersections with ideas of 'value'. His recent publications include "Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett "(2002), "The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett "(2006), and aspecial issue of the "Yearbook of English Studies" (2005) on 'Irish Writing since 1950'.
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