Reading and Criticism, Bb Raymond Williams:
The Construction Of The Critic And The Relevance Of William Shakespeare
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https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v27i47.19678Keywords:
Williams. Reading and Criticism. literary critic. Pedagogue. ShakespeareAbstract
This article sets out to explore the construction of the literary critic in Raymond Williams’s first book Reading and Criticism and how William Shakespeare operates in it. In his work, the Welsh writer displays a paradox. On the one hand, he acknowledges the importance of social and historical conditions when training readers in the context of free and compulsory education in England. By means of this project, the critic becomes a pedagogue. On the other hand, the writer removes the object and the methodology of study as well as the figure of the critic from their social and historical frame. This paradox, made visible through the references to Shakespeare, does not mean that the pedagogue outstands the critic: the former exhibits the limits of Williams’s first proposal, which are in keeping with the lack of historicity he ascribes to literary studies.
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