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Title: Prodigal Sign
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Parable of Criticism
EAN: 9781845191542
ISBN: 9781845191542
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 04/12/2008
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 152mm
Item Length: 229mm
Item Weight: 390g
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Critical Inventions
Description: "The Prodigal Sign" sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This is not just because, as Derrida says, 'no practice is ever totally faithful to its principle', but also because critics are habitual runaways -- forever seeking to escape the jurisdiction of their forebears and of the academy. Always on the lookout for something new and distinctive to say about the same old texts or for texts that have escaped the professional attention of their peers, like the prodigal son, they live on their inheritance while trying to escape from their own disciplinary history. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape -- breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative.
Author: Kevin Mills
Release Year: 2008

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