Binding: Paperback
Description: An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us scramble for a response. As Michel Chaouli argues criticism involves three moments: Something speaks to me. I must tell you about it. But I don t know how. The heart of criticism no matter its form lies in these surges of thoughts and feelings. Criticism arises from the fundamental need to share what overwhelms us. We tend to associate criticism with scholarship and journalism. But Chaouli is not describing professional criticism but what he calls poetic criticism a staging ground for surprise dread delight comprehension and incomprehension. Written in the mode of a philosophical essay Something Speaks to Me draws on a wide range of writers artists and thinkers from Kant and Schlegel to Merleau - Ponty Bachelard Barthes and Cavell. Reflecting on these dimensions of poetic experience Something Speaks to Me is less concerned with joining academic debates than communicating the urgency of criticism.
Title: Something Speaks To Me Where Criticism Begins
Author(s): Chaouli Professor Michel
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226830421
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 2/16/2024
Category: Literary Studies: General