The World, the Text, and the Critic

Said, Edward W.

The World, the Text, and the Critic.

Harvard University Press, 1983.

 

The Text, the World, the Critic.pdf

The point is that texts have ways of existing that even in their most rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place, and society – in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly. Whether a text is preserved or put aside for a period, whether it is on a library shelf or not, whether it is considered dangerous or not: these matters have to do with a text’s being in the world, which is a more complicated matter than the private process of reading. The same implications are undoubtedly true of critics in their capacities as readers and writers in the world. - Said

 

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