Crrritic! : Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation, and Various Other Noises off in These the First and Last Days of Literary Criticism

Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist, ' while Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown.' Crrritic brings together a range of writings that seek to radically reimagine the often pale figure of the literary critic. In doing so, the reader will glimpse a host of unfamiliar figures from 'the critic as pedestrian, ' to 'the critic as suicide, ' through 'the critic as revivalist, ' and even 'the critic as bodger.' The result is a book that locates the truly critical critic - or, to be paradoxical, the critic as critic; the critic who is a critic of criticism as conventionally underst