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Critical Questions is an anthology of original and reprinted essays on criticism of discourse and media. It explores the subject of critical invention, the variety of practices by which the fundamental questions guiding critical research are developed, refined, and justified. Practicing critics have contributed thirteen paired essays: an original discussion of inventional practices with respect to a specific critical essay of theirs, and the reprinted essay itself.
Part I examines the process of critical invention and explains the maxims by which the anthologized essays are organized. In Part II, well-known critics discuss how they compose their critical projects, with reference to the specific essays reprinted here. The commentary pieces demystify the process of writing criticism, investigating how critical questions arise, how critics select their critical stance and subject matter, and how criticism evolves and changes during the process of writing.
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GARY A. COPELAND is Professor of Telecommunication and Film and Speech Communication at the University of Alabama. They are the authors of Negative Political Advertising (1991) and Inside Political Campaigns (1997).
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Small scratch marks to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. xii, 452 p., 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. Seller Inventory # 2009020008