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Overview
This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples.Synopsis
This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples.
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A lucid and trenchant polemical history of interpretive criticism in the academy, built around a hierarchy of related topics: the interpretation of Eliot's poetry, and in particular The Waste Land; the problems caused by the reification of "modernism"; the conflicts between New Critical theory and interpretive practice; the emergence of poststructuralist "theory" as a network of personality cults; and the role of institutional and professional imperatives in determining some of the key trends in mainstream interpretive criticism since the 1930s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)