Reviews for The death of the artist as hero

The average rating for The death of the artist as hero based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-21 00:00:00 Riccardo Caranci One fun thing about literary criticism is the way the author assumes you have read literally every single thing they have read AND that you understood it in the same way. Which, it seems like if that were true you wouldn't need to write the book because I would already know it all? Anyway, lots of interesting ideas in here, but god help me with trying to actually follow most of them.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-17 00:00:00 Robin Ayers This book should come with a heavy prerequisite reading list including Proust, Melanie Klein, Baudelaire, and the entirety of Ulysses. As I realized I was a bit out of my depths with this text, I took to reading the sections of interest to my research, namely Freud and Nietzsche. The section on Freud took a disappointing focus on his erotic theory, and I admittedly fell asleep at one point. That's just never been of much interest to me... The section on Nietzsche focused on The Birth of Tragedy, which is of great interest to me. However, Bersani took everything I thought I understood in Birth of Tragedy and flipped it on its head. So, I'll be chewing on that for a while.... All in all, the book provided me with some good insight into the term "culture" and definitely got my brain working. I don't feel I can give the book a completely fair review since I read half of it at best, but it definitely helped me get my research gears turning again!