Doing Criticism. James Chandler

      

Doing Criticism

      Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts

      James Chandler

This edition first published 2022

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Chandler, James, 1948- author.

      Title: Doing criticism : across literary and screen arts / James Chandler.

      Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: Doing criticism/doing without criticism -- Makings of the critical essay -- Conversations -- Adaptations -- Genres -- Conclusion: Spike Lee’s Joints.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021060387 (print) | LCCN 2021060388 (ebook) | ISBN 9781405177795 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119800637 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119800620 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Criticism.

      Classification: LCC PN81 .C54 2022 (print) | LCC PN81 (ebook) | DDC 801/.95--dc23/eng/20220126

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021060387 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021060388

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For my students at the University of Chicago,

      1976–2021,

and those yet to come

Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Preface

      6  Acknowledgments

      7 PART I Critical IssuesCHAPTER 1 Doing Criticism/Doing without Criticism1 Functions of Criticism2 Two Thought Experiments3 Limits of the Lyric Paradigm4 Criticism in the Convenience Store5 Criticism between Page and ScreenCHAPTER 2 Makings of the Critical Essay1 Objects, Occasions, Frames of Reference2 Criticism and the Essay Form3 Critical Questions I4 Critical Questions II5 Critical Judgments

      8 PART II Criticism in PracticeCHAPTER 3 Conversations1 Beyond the Poem Itself2 Coppola Sounds Out Hitchcock3 Austen, Edgeworth, and the Moral Economy of the NovelCHAPTER 4 Adaptations1 Two-Way Street2 Point of View in Fiction and Cinema: The Remains of the Day3 Frankenstein and Its Adapted ProgenyCHAPTER 5 Genres1 Laws of Genre2 Satire across Media: Character and Impersonation3 Melodrama across Media: Character and PersonalizationCHAPTER 6 Conclusion: Authorship and Seriality—Spike Lee’s Joints1 Authorship, Seriality, and the Case of Spike Lee2 Some Spike Lee Joints: Conversations and Adaptations3 Crossing Genres in Bamboozled

      9  Index

      10  End User License