tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967476903991259470.post2151004546558761152..comments2024-03-25T16:59:28.263-04:00Comments on Works Cited: Is criticism a métier?Nataliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07898457401179147102noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967476903991259470.post-64293063429176747122010-09-09T14:51:13.565-04:002010-09-09T14:51:13.565-04:00n, i don't have my own response to your questi...n, i don't have my own response to your question, but i just read this essay and thought it might speak to what you are trying to get at re: the "metier" of the critic.<br /><br />http://justtv.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/on-disliking-mad-men/Gladyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12926050353462847606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967476903991259470.post-10415822449235853912010-09-08T12:22:13.502-04:002010-09-08T12:22:13.502-04:00I'm asking less about what our notion of criti...I'm asking less about what our notion of criticism should be than about what it is.Nataliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954034499196842959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967476903991259470.post-24412544642401743532010-09-08T09:50:48.375-04:002010-09-08T09:50:48.375-04:00That's sort of the Lionel Trilling "moral...That's sort of the Lionel Trilling "moral obligation to be intelligent" sense of the intellectual, isn't it? Not so much a defining praxis as a particular kind of cultivation of the self.<br /><br />I dunno. I tend towards the gramscian sense of the intellectual, but "the critic" as a particular form of intellectual might only be definable in the terms you describe.Aaronhttp://zunguzungu.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com