Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said

Informationen zum Autor Conor McCarthy is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Klappentext A concise! informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said. Zusammenfassung A handy! clear and comprehensive guide to the work of one of the most important critics and public intellectuals of the last 40 years. McCarthy covers Said's life! his relationship to major intellectual and political trends of his time! his major works and their reception. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: beginning with Edward Said: history, biography, criticism; 2. Influences: phenomenology, philology, Marxism, poststructuralism; 3. Works: Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975); Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); 4. Reception; Guide to further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Conor McCarthy, Conor (National University of Ireland Mccarthy, McCarthy Conor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521864534
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86453-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature & literary studies, Literary theory