The Critic as Amateur
The Critic as Amateur Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? While untrained reading has always been central to arenas beyond the academy - book clubs,…
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The Critic as Amateur
Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? 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. 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.
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
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