The World, the Text, and the Critic

Edward W. Said

    Introduction: Secular Criticism

    1. The World, the Text, and the Critic

    2. Swift's Tory Anarchy

    3. Swift as Intellectual

    4. Conrad: The Presentation of Narrative

    5. On Repetition

    6. On Originality

    7. roads Taken and Not Taken in Contemporary Criticism

    8. Reflections on AMerican "Left" Literary Criticism

    9. Criticism Between Culture and System

    10. Traveling Theory

    11. Raymond Schwab and the Romance of Ideas

    12. Islam, Philolgy, and French Culture: Renan and Massignon

    Conclusion: Religious Criticism

    Notes

    Index

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Edward W. Said was University Professor at Columbia University.