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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第 iv 頁
... Literature - History and criticism - Theory , etc. I. Title . [ PN441.S3 1985 ] 809 Library of Congress Catalog Number 77-17259 ISBN 0-231-05936-1 0-231-05937 - x pbk . 84-17044 For Mariam Wadie Najla Doctrines must take their beginning ...
... Literature - History and criticism - Theory , etc. I. Title . [ PN441.S3 1985 ] 809 Library of Congress Catalog Number 77-17259 ISBN 0-231-05936-1 0-231-05937 - x pbk . 84-17044 For Mariam Wadie Najla Doctrines must take their beginning ...
第 xii 頁
... literature and " literariness " from " the world , " and its quasi- religious quietism . In a striking way this resemblance has vindicated the New Critics who , stemming from T. S. Kliot and I. A. Richards in England and proceeding ...
... literature and " literariness " from " the world , " and its quasi- religious quietism . In a striking way this resemblance has vindicated the New Critics who , stemming from T. S. Kliot and I. A. Richards in England and proceeding ...
第 xiv 頁
... literature " could be dis- cussed as a completely separate genre of human activity . Related to this dissatisfaction is the positive attitude that literature , history , phi- losophy , and social discourse and indeed most of the modes ...
... literature " could be dis- cussed as a completely separate genre of human activity . Related to this dissatisfaction is the positive attitude that literature , history , phi- losophy , and social discourse and indeed most of the modes ...
第 xv 頁
... literature , how important is the beginning ? Are such questions about beginning worth raising ? And if so , can they be treated or answered concretely , intelligibly , informatively ? For this book these are the beginning questions ...
... literature , how important is the beginning ? Are such questions about beginning worth raising ? And if so , can they be treated or answered concretely , intelligibly , informatively ? For this book these are the beginning questions ...
第 xix 頁
... Literature at Columbia College ; it would be difficult to describe , or for that matter to thank , the extraordinary ambience of intelligence and friendship so often present on the fourth floor of Hamilton Hall . For the sympathetic ...
... Literature at Columbia College ; it would be difficult to describe , or for that matter to thank , the extraordinary ambience of intelligence and friendship so often present on the fourth floor of Hamilton Hall . For the sympathetic ...
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