The Task of the Critic : : Poetics, Philosophy, Religion / / Henry Sussman.

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• VerfasserIn: Sussman, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Today’s critic must be something of a philosopher as well as a poet. Yet her work remains above all that of the close reader, and the emergence of the values embodied by the close reader to stand alongside those of the philosopher and the poet may be one of the most significant intellectual developments to emerge in the post–World War II years. This book analyzes the language poets, Deleuze and Guattari, and above all Benjamin and Derrida, to trace the various dimensions of the task of the critic. It concludes with a major chapter on the significance of Derrida’s recent work for the conceptualization of religion, and with an Afterword examining the role of the Romantic discourse of the fragment in the archeology of all these discursive strands. The task of the critic, now invited to pass through the discourses of philosophy, poetry, and religion beyond that of close reading, has never been harder—nor have we ever been more in need of it.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Task of the Critic: A Game of Registers -- 2. Prolegomena to Any Present and Future Language Poetry -- 3. Walter, the Critic -- 4. Between the Registers: The Arcades Project, The Talmud, and Glas -- 5. Deterritorializing the Text: Flow Theory and Deconstruction -- 6. Derrida as Critic: A Joycean Odyssey -- 7. The Fourth Abrahamic Religion? -- Afterword: Fragmentary Script as the Enabling Legislation for Modern Criticism -- Notes -- Index