
Prodigal Sign
A Parable of Criticism
Kevin Mills(Author)
Liverpool University Press
Published on 4. December 2008
Book
Hardback
167 pages
978-1-84519-154-2 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84519-154-2 (9781845191542)
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Content
Introduction; Parable & Criticism: The Prodigal Son; The Dwarf; Keywords: The Prodigal Daughter; The Broken Doll; The Strange Face of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde; Reason's Disciple: After Master Derrida; Father Away in the Forest of Books; The Elder Brother; Splitting the Aphorism; Skin Trunk: Literature & Resistance in Father & Son; 'I'; The Estate; Parable of the Republic; Index.