Name: The Critic as Amateur
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Author: Professor Saikat Majumdar
ISBN: 9781501341410

The Critic as Amateur

Professor Saikat Majumdar

Prof Aarthi Vadde

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2019

În cadrul programelor de studii superioare dedicate teoriei și istoriei literare, The Critic as Amateur ocupă un loc strategic, chestionând însăși fundamentele autorității critice. Considerăm că această lucrare, coordonată de Professor Saikat Majumdar și Prof Aarthi Vadde, este esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care studiile literare s-au transformat dintr-o îndeletnicire a pasiunii într-o disciplină academică riguros specializată. Volumul investighează dacă critica poate păstra un „impuls amator” chiar și după ce devine o profesie reglementată de universitate.

Comparabil cu Professing Criticism de Professor John Guillory în rigurozitatea analizei sociologice a disciplinei, acest volum este actualizat pentru contextul secolului XXI, unde mistificarea expertizei și ascensiunea spațiilor de lectură neconvenționale (cluburi de carte, biblioteci personale, grupuri de scriere) redefinesc rolul criticului. The Critic as Amateur se distinge printr-o perspectivă pluralistă, aducând laolaltă figuri precum Derek Attridge sau Peter D. McDonald pentru a explora critica în afara amfiteatrelor, de la emisiunile radio la cultura micilor edituri.

Structura volumului este echilibrată în două secțiuni majore. Prima parte, „The Amateur Impulse”, recuperează dimensiunea plăcerii și a învățării autodidacte, în timp ce a doua parte, „The Amateur in the Age of Professionalization”, analizează figuri istorice și metodologii care au încercat să reconcilieze rigoarea academică cu sensibilitatea estetică. Această abordare continuă preocupările lui Professor Saikat Majumdar din lucrarea sa anterioară, The Amateur, extinzând discuția despre eșecul sau ignoranța ca instrumente de lectură într-un cadru colectiv și diversificat.

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Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves into a highly specialized discipline enshrined in the university?

The Critic as Amateur brings leading and emerging scholars together to explore the role of amateurism in literary studies. While untrained reading has always been central to arenas beyond the academy - book clubs, libraries, used bookstores - its role in the making of professional criticism is often disavowed or dismissed. This volume, the first on the critic as amateur, restores the links between expertise, autodidactic learning and hobbyist pleasure by weaving literary criticism in and out of the university.

Our contributors take criticism to the airwaves, through the culture of early cinema, the small press, the undergraduate classroom and extracurricular writing groups. Canonical critics are considered alongside feminist publishers and queer intellectuals. The Critic as Amateur is a vital book for readers invested in the disciplinary history of literary studies and the public role of the humanities. It is also a crucial resource for anyone interested in how literary criticism becomes a richly diverse yet shared discourse in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Criticism for the Whole Person"
Aarthi Vadde (Duke University, USA) with Saikat Majumdar (Ashoka University, India)

Part I: THE AMATEUR IMPULSE
1. In Praise of Amateurism
Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
2. In the Shadow of the Archive
Tom Lutz (Founder and Editor of Los Angeles Review of Books)
3. "It's All Very Suggestive, but It Isn't Scholarship"
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (University of Arizona, USA)
4. Beyond Professionalism: The Pasts and Futures of Creative Criticism
Peter D. McDonald (Oxford University, UK)
Part II: THE AMATEUR IN THE AGE OF PROFESSIONALIZATION
5. Leavis, Richards, and the Duplicators
Christopher Hilliard (University of Sydney, Australia)
6. The Critic as Rasik: Pramatha Chaudhuri, Tagore, and the New Language of Literary Writing
Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)
7. The Sophisticated Amateur: Vernon Lee versus the Vital Liars
Mimi Winick (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Part III: THE CRITIC AS AMATEUR IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA
8. Dorothy Richardson and Close Up: Amateur and Professional Exchanges in Film Culture
Zlatina Nikolova & Chris Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
9. New Judgments: Literary Criticism on Air
Emily C. Bloom (Columbia University, USA)
10. The Small Press and the Feminist Critic
Melanie Micir (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

EPILOGUE: New, Interesting, and Original: The Undergraduate as Amateur
Kara Wittman (Pomona College, USA)

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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This splendid, exhaustively researched, and timely collection-buoyed by the editors' equally comprehensive introduction and a contrapuntal pedagogical epilogue on New, Interesting, and Original: The Undergraduate as Amateur-is substantial in developing its arguments.
It is a rare book of literary criticism that can both expand the field and offer a self-exegesis of it. The Critic as Amateur, edited by Saikat Majumdar and Aarthi Vadde, is such a book. This richly suggestive collection of essays negotiates the derring-do of the provocateur-amateur position, while reflexively demonstrating the scholarly expertise required to argue for the importance - indeed necessity - of such a position.
This is an engaging and often enthralling collection of essays that goes to the heart of current debates about the purpose of literary studies. Neither a simple defense of amateurism nor a disparagement of it, it offers substantial and thought-provoking insights on the many entanglements of professional and amateur reading.
Nothing amateurish about this kaleidoscopic array of essays on a question central to literary criticism and to the humanities more generally: How do love and work shape esthetic experience and the project of analyzing that experience? From a cast of characters populated by fans as well as writers, journalists as well as monograph-writers, students as well as teachers, emerges the insight that even--or especially--professionals engage in amateur criticism, and that the resulting genres challenge received understandings of populism, institutions, and indeed reading itself. A thought-provoking set of arguments accessible to professionals and amateurs alike.
In an age marked simultaneously by sterile professionalism, revolts against experts, and information overload, The Critic as Amateur bracingly highlights both new and neglected ways of understanding literature, the self, and the world. Anyone concerned about the future of reading and writing should read it."
In this age of fake news and a mistrust of experts, what value can amateur impulses bring to criticism? In The Critic as Amateur a space is made for this question and many more in a fascinating essay collection.

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