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The Critical Romance The Critic as Reader, Writer, Hero Jean-Pierre Mileur Jean-Pierre Mileur asserts that “the literary tradition, the great tradition of the Romantics, is now being carried on by criticism,” and that modern criticism “is a late Romantic literary genre, a distinctive form of the romance.” By collapsing the boundaries between the literary and the literary-critical traditions, Mileur embarks on a thought-provoking analysis of literary criticism. Criticism becomes a modern version of the age-old quest romance, and the critic becomes a romantic hero—a brooding figure fraught with self-doubt who strives, like Browning’s Childe Roland, despite knowledge of certain failure. The Critical Romance is an exciting intervention in the critical study of criticism that makes a significant contribution to the study of Romanticism as well. Jean-Pierre Mileur is professor and chair of the English department at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Case: Philosophy as/and Literature, Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity, and Vision and Revision: Coleridge’s Art of Immanence. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

April 1990 LC: 89-040533 PN 272 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN-10: 0-299-12414-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12414-4 Paper $15.00 s The 1990 cloth edition of this book is out of print, but the paperback is still available. Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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