by Edward W. Said · Columbia University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780231059374
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«Beginnings: Intention and Method» is Edward W. Said's literary criticism essay, published by Columbia University Press in paperback.
Said contrasts the beginning, secular and human, with the origin, divine and mythical, and understands it as a first step in the intentional production of meaning. Drawing on Vico, Nietzsche, Saussure, and Foucault, he recognizes in the novel the main attempt of Western literature to give beginnings an authorizing function.
English edition of 414 pages, published by Columbia University Press in 1985 and framed within literary criticism and theory.
Reference work for an academic audience specialized in literary theory and criticism.
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
