Amanda Anderson vindt vreugde in schrijven, een relatief nieuwe bezigheid die voortbouwt op een levenslange liefde voor verhalen vertellen. Ze creëert verhalen om beelden en emoties bij haar lezers op te roepen, en beschouwt schrijven als een ontsnapping aan de prachtige chaos van haar leven. Anderson waardeert haar self-published status, die haar de creatieve vrijheid geeft om authentiek en op haar eigen voorwaarden te schrijven. Ze voelt zich aangetrokken tot personages die conventionele archetypen tarten, waarbij ze hun uniciteit en de organische stroom van hun verhalen rechtstreeks uit haar verbeelding waardeert.
Exploring the intersection of argumentation and philosophy, Amanda Anderson delves into how our debating styles reflect our way of life. She examines literary, cultural, and political theories, focusing on critical distance, subjective experience, and the foundations of belief. By engaging with liberal and rationalist traditions, Anderson critiques the boundaries of identity politics and poststructuralism, emphasizing the significance of theory as a guiding principle in life and thought.
A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion force critics to embrace humanism and outmoded theories of the subject? Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.
Exploring the interplay between detachment and engagement in Victorian culture, Amanda Anderson analyzes how figures like George Eliot and Oscar Wilde grappled with moral dilemmas arising from cultivated distance. The book delves into practices of objectivity in social science, artistic realism, and cosmopolitanism, revealing the progressive potential of these Enlightenment ideals. Through a revisionist lens, Anderson defends detachment as a valuable and aspirational approach within the complexities of nineteenth-century British literature and thought.
Bible teacher and popular speaker Amanda Anderson shows women how to form the safe, sane friendships that enable them to become the person God intends them to be.
The collection features a diverse array of poetry crafted in rhyming verse, showcasing a blend of themes and emotions. Each poem offers a unique perspective, inviting readers to explore the beauty and rhythm of language through various poetic expressions. The interplay of structure and creativity highlights the author's skill in weaving intricate narratives and vivid imagery.
Bleak liberalism -- Liberalism in the age of high realism -- Revisiting the political novel -- The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno -- Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing