Carter Kaplan. Critical Synoptics. Menippean Satire and the Analysis of Intellectual Mythology.(Book Review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000. 219 pp. $39.50.

IN THE SECOND CHAPTER of part one of Carter Kaplan's Critical Synoptics, the author proposes a duality within the field of literary judgement between those critics who play their "reading games" on the basis of a clinical, authoritarian and analytical posture and those who tend to convey the value of literary texts on the basis of an aesthetic reading. Kaplan's conceptual inventiveness allows him to generate distinct portmanteau words to characterize their ...

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