Beginnings: Intention and MethodColumbia University Press, 1985 - 414 頁 A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of beginning through history. A beginning is a first step in the intentional production of meaning and the production of difference from preexisting traditions. It authorizes subsequent texts--it both enables them and limits what is acceptable. Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Husserl, and Foucault, Said recognizes the novel as the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing function in experience, art, and knowledge. Scholarship should see itself as a beginning--as a uniting of theory and practice. Said's insistence on a criticism that is humane and socially responsible is what makes Beginnings a book about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from human intention and the method of its fulfillment. |
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... discuss . I have concentrated on beginnings both as something one does and as something one thinks about . The two sometimes go together , but they are always necessarily connected when language is being used . Thus there is a ...
... discuss . I have concentrated on beginnings both as something one does and as something one thinks about . The two sometimes go together , but they are always necessarily connected when language is being used . Thus there is a ...
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... ( the development of the novel , for example ) that does not stray very far from the core subject of beginnings , although paradoxically I find it possible in one chapter ( Chapter 3 ) to discuss both the early and xvi PREFACE.
... ( the development of the novel , for example ) that does not stray very far from the core subject of beginnings , although paradoxically I find it possible in one chapter ( Chapter 3 ) to discuss both the early and xvi PREFACE.
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Intention and Method Edward W. Said. ( Chapter 3 ) to discuss both the early and the late phases of the European novel . Altogether , these six episodes constitute a structure for studying beginnings , though not in a linear fashion ...
Intention and Method Edward W. Said. ( Chapter 3 ) to discuss both the early and the late phases of the European novel . Altogether , these six episodes constitute a structure for studying beginnings , though not in a linear fashion ...
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... discussion there , I have found the collegiate atmos- phere of Columbia inimitable . Friends and colleagues in other places have been kind in similar , and similarly valuable , ways : it is a special pleasure to mention Sadek el - Azm ...
... discussion there , I have found the collegiate atmos- phere of Columbia inimitable . Friends and colleagues in other places have been kind in similar , and similarly valuable , ways : it is a special pleasure to mention Sadek el - Azm ...
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