http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337 All things Tin House Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:49:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337&cpage=1#comment-258 Weekend Miscellany: Niffenegger, Dickens, P. D. James, and Dracula » Novel Readings - Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:50:43 +0000 http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337#comment-258 [...] priorities of academic critics, and so on–much of it begun with some snide remarks about Dracula–has piqued my interest in rereading the novel, which I haven’t read in [...] [...] priorities of academic critics, and so on–much of it begun with some snide remarks about Dracula–has piqued my interest in rereading the novel, which I haven’t read in [...]

]]> http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337&cpage=1#comment-66 Tony Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:27:45 +0000 http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337#comment-66 There's an interesting conversation going on about this post at The Valve (http://tinyurl.com/pqgvcy). Thoughts? There’s an interesting conversation going on about this post at The Valve (http://tinyurl.com/pqgvcy). Thoughts?

]]> http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337&cpage=1#comment-62 jmtowls Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:04:01 +0000 http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=337#comment-62 *Creative criticism* - or just good criticism? Whatever you want to call it, it's badly needed, so bravo. To paraphrase Edward W. Said in Humanism and Democratic Criticism, over-emphasizing theory leads some folks to shut down the intellectual curiosity that is supposed to be the basis of scholarship. But Said also notes that a total lack of interest in literary theories can become a form of easy shelter from thought. Surely one goal of reading and writing about reading is to become more human. J. M. Tyree *Creative criticism* – or just good criticism? Whatever you want to call it, it’s badly needed, so bravo. To paraphrase Edward W. Said in Humanism and Democratic Criticism, over-emphasizing theory leads some folks to shut down the intellectual curiosity that is supposed to be the basis of scholarship. But Said also notes that a total lack of interest in literary theories can become a form of easy shelter from thought. Surely one goal of reading and writing about reading is to become more human. J. M. Tyree

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