Crrritic! Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation, and Various Other Noises Off in These the
First and Last Days of Literary Criticism
Edited by John Schad and Oliver Tearle
John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at University of Lancaster. His most recent book, Someone Called Derrida (2007), is a real-life detective narrative centred on Jacques Derrida's secret Oxford life. He is currently writing a novel called Nowhere Near London. Or, I Am Not Walter Benjamin.
Oliver Tearle is currently completing a doctoral thesis on hallucination in weird fiction at Loughborough University. He has written for (among others) Notes and Queries, Critical Sense, and the Modern Language Review. His first book, The Curtained Room, will be published by Sussex Academic Press in 2010.
Oscar Wilde famously spoke of ‘the critic as artist’ whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated ‘the critic as clown’. This exciting new volume brings together a range of writings that seek to radically reimagine the often pale figure of the literary critic. In doing so we here glimpse a host of unfamiliar figures from the critic as pedestrian to the critic as suicide through the critic as revivalist and even the critic as bodger. The result is a book that seeks to locate the truly critical critic – or, to be paradoxical, the critic as critic; the critic who is a critic of criticism as conventionally understood.
… Crritic! is the final volume of the immensely successful Critical Inventions series. For review appraisals of books in the series, please go to the Library of Study section on the Press website.
