Rita Felski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 122927 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rita Felski |
| NOMBRES | Rita |
| APELLIDO | Felski |
| FIRMA | FELSKI R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6493-3668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 190 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The English Studies Interview
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Postcritique
This paper briefly surveys a history of reckoning with the limits of critique in cultural studies and sociology. It highlights affinities between the turn to postcritique in literary studies and the present generation of Frankfurt School thought, including a heightened attention to everyday life worlds and an interest in developing a more expansive affirmative vocabulary beyond existing theories of utopia. It then raises questions about the polit…
Unknotted, Derailed, Realigned
Unknotted, Derailed, Realigned Rita Felski (bio) First Reactions How to respond to Influx & Efflux? To find a way toward a form that fits its form? To mimic its patterns of affinity and sympathy, its courting of contagion? Jane Bennett not only writes but draws; flowers, amoebas, stars, and tendrils—evoking the album covers of 1960s psychedelic bands—spiral across the book’s cover, like vegetation from another planet. Similar shapes drift across …
Sociological writing as resonant writing
This article focuses on two examples of sociological writing that have attracted wide public interest: Didier Eribon's best-selling memoir about his working-class origins, Returning to Reims , and Hartmut Rosa's door-stopper work of social theory, Resonance , featured on the cover of the German news magazine Stern. These two very different works - one indebted to Bourdieu and Foucault, the other located in the tradition of the Frankfurt School - …
Latour i literaturoznawstwo
21 cm
Gender, love and recognition in I Love Dick and The Other Woman
How might the idea of recognition offer a fresh slant on contemporary women’s writing? In this essay, we bring theories of recognition into dialogue with two literary works: Chris Kraus’s widely reviewed memoir I Love Dick and The Other Woman by the well-regarded Swedish novelist Therese Bohman. Our analysis focuses on recognition within the texts as well as its relevance to relations between texts and readers. We seek to clarify how attitudes to…
Recognizing Class
This essay draws out affinities between the ideas of Axel Honneth, one of the most prominent figures of the present-day Frankfurt School, and Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon's widely lauded memoir about his estrangement from his working-class origins. It argues that Returning to Reims' portrait of a divided self casts a fresh light on the politics of recognition—its conflicting dimensions and unintended consequences—as well as the aesthetics of…
Hooked
Character
Critique and Postcritique
Critique and Postcritique
Comparison and Translation
What can scholars of comparative literature learn from other fields about theories and practices of comparison? This article turns to actor-network theory (ANT) and its explorations of translation, comparison, and similar terms. ANT, it argues, offers an intriguing angle on such modes of relation. In literary studies, comparison has often been subject to stringent critique, accused of imposing false equivalences and oppressive forms of homogeniza…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
The Limits of Critique
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that critic's task is to reveal unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates it as but one method among many, a method with strong allure-but also definite limits. Felski argues that critique is a sensibility best captured by Paul Ricoeur's …
O Papel Da Estética Nos Estudos Culturais
Tradução do artigo de Rita Felski "The role of aesthetics in cultural studies" por Joana d'Arc Martins Pupo
Digging Down and Standing Back
Research Article| September 01 2013 Digging Down and Standing Back Rita Felski Rita Felski University of Virginia [email protected] Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History. She is author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, The Gender of Modernity, Doing Time, Literature after Feminism, and Uses of Literature, editor of Rethinking Tragedy and co-editor of Comparison: T…
Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Anyone contemplating the role of a "hermeneutics of suspicion" in literary and cultural studies must concede that the phrase is rarely used-even by its most devout practitioners, who usually think of themselves engaged in something called "critique." What, then, are the terminological differences between "critique" and "the hermeneutics of suspicion"? What intellectual worlds do these specific terms conjure up, and how do these worlds converge or…
Suspicious Minds
The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur to describe the practice of reading texts against the grain to expose their repressed or hidden meanings. This essay examines the distinctive features of such a hermeneutics as they have shaped literary theory and criticism in recent decades. Suspicious reading, it proposes, is not only an intellectual exercise in demystification, but also a critical style and scholarly sensibility th…
Context Stinks
This essay draws on the work of Bruno Latour to question conventional methods of "historicizing" and "contextualizing" works of art. Context is typically equated with original historical context, and the act of historicizing a text becomes a matter of linking it to other texts and events in the same slice of time. Such historicist approaches, I argue, cannot account for the transtemporal movement of texts, their ability to resonate across differe…
After Suspicion
Uses of Literature
Because it is beautiful
The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies
In this translation from his recent book, L'Instant ternel: Le retour du tragique dans les soci t s postmodernes, Michel Maffesol develops a diagnosis of the present that draws on the earlier arguments of The Shadow of Dionysus, The Time of the Tribes, and other works. According to Maffesoli, the project of modernity, defined as a future-oriented faith in individual development and political transformation, is reaching its end. Against those who …
Literature after Feminism
Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature After Feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. Spelling out her main arguments …
Reflexivity and the Politics of Qualitative Research
Context Stinks
This essay draws on the work of Bruno Latour to question conventional methods of "historicizing" and "contextualizing" works of art. Context is typically equated with original historical context, and the act of historicizing a text becomes a matter of linking it to other texts and events in the same slice of time. Such historicist approaches, I argue, cannot account for the transtemporal movement of texts, their ability to resonate across differe…
Suspicious Minds
The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur to describe the practice of reading texts against the grain to expose their repressed or hidden meanings. This essay examines the distinctive features of such a hermeneutics as they have shaped literary theory and criticism in recent decades. Suspicious reading, it proposes, is not only an intellectual exercise in demystification, but also a critical style and scholarly sensibility th…
Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Anyone contemplating the role of a "hermeneutics of suspicion" in literary and cultural studies must concede that the phrase is rarely used-even by its most devout practitioners, who usually think of themselves engaged in something called "critique." What, then, are the terminological differences between "critique" and "the hermeneutics of suspicion"? What intellectual worlds do these specific terms conjure up, and how do these worlds converge or…
The Doxa of Difference
Feminist Theory and Social Change
Because it is beautiful
Comparison and Translation
What can scholars of comparative literature learn from other fields about theories and practices of comparison? This article turns to actor-network theory (ANT) and its explorations of translation, comparison, and similar terms. ANT, it argues, offers an intriguing angle on such modes of relation. In literary studies, comparison has often been subject to stringent critique, accused of imposing false equivalences and oppressive forms of homogeniza…
Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Modernity
T his paper examines some points of connection and contradiction between contemporary feminism and the influential if elusive concept of the postmodern. It does not attempt to survey the extensive body of writing on postmodernism or to deliver a conclusive judgment on the ultimate value of the term as an analytical category. Instead, the example of feminism, as an oppositional ideology and a social movement which comprises a wide diversity of pol…
Sociological writing as resonant writing
This article focuses on two examples of sociological writing that have attracted wide public interest: Didier Eribon's best-selling memoir about his working-class origins, Returning to Reims , and Hartmut Rosa's door-stopper work of social theory, Resonance , featured on the cover of the German news magazine Stern. These two very different works - one indebted to Bourdieu and Foucault, the other located in the tradition of the Frankfurt School - …
Fin de siecle, Fin de sexe
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 1996
Images of the intellectual
(1998). Images of the intellectual: From philosophy to cultural studies1. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 157-171
Recognizing Class
This essay draws out affinities between the ideas of Axel Honneth, one of the most prominent figures of the present-day Frankfurt School, and Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon's widely lauded memoir about his estrangement from his working-class origins. It argues that Returning to Reims' portrait of a divided self casts a fresh light on the politics of recognition—its conflicting dimensions and unintended consequences—as well as the aesthetics of…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies
In this translation from his recent book, L'Instant ternel: Le retour du tragique dans les soci t s postmodernes, Michel Maffesol develops a diagnosis of the present that draws on the earlier arguments of The Shadow of Dionysus, The Time of the Tribes, and other works. According to Maffesoli, the project of modernity, defined as a future-oriented faith in individual development and political transformation, is reaching its end. Against those who …
Being reasonable, telling stories
Kitsch, romance fiction and male paranoia
(1990). Kitsch, romance fiction and male paranoia: Stephen king meets the frankfurt school. Continuum: Vol. 4, The Media of Publishing, pp. 54-70
Gender, love and recognition in I Love Dick and The Other Woman
How might the idea of recognition offer a fresh slant on contemporary women’s writing? In this essay, we bring theories of recognition into dialogue with two literary works: Chris Kraus’s widely reviewed memoir I Love Dick and The Other Woman by the well-regarded Swedish novelist Therese Bohman. Our analysis focuses on recognition within the texts as well as its relevance to relations between texts and readers. We seek to clarify how attitudes to…
Peter Handke’s Langsame Heimkehr
Peter Handke’s Langsame Heimkehr
German feminist aesthetics
Gisela Ecker, ed., Feminist Aesthetics, trans. Harriet Anderson (The Woman's Press) London, 1985
Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Modernity
T his paper examines some points of connection and contradiction between contemporary feminism and the influential if elusive concept of the postmodern. It does not attempt to survey the extensive body of writing on postmodernism or to deliver a conclusive judgment on the ultimate value of the term as an analytical category. Instead, the example of feminism, as an oppositional ideology and a social movement which comprises a wide diversity of pol…
Feminist Theory and Social Change
Kitsch, romance fiction and male paranoia
(1990). Kitsch, romance fiction and male paranoia: Stephen king meets the frankfurt school. Continuum: Vol. 4, The Media of Publishing, pp. 54-70
Feminist Antifeminism
The golden age of private life
Michelle Perrot, ed. A History of Private Life, Vol 4: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990)
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics has a dual focus. First, Rita Felski gives a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and second, she offers an analysis of contemporary fiction by women, drawing in particular on the genres of the autobiographical confession and the novel of self-discovery, in order to show that this literature raises questions for feminism that cannot be answered in terms of a purely gender based ana…
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
The Gender of Modernity
Fin de siecle, Fin de sexe
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 1996
Modern girls
Judith Krantz, author of ‘the cultural logics of late capitalism’
Reply to Braidotti, Cornell, and Ang
The Doxa of Difference
Images of the intellectual
(1998). Images of the intellectual: From philosophy to cultural studies1. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 157-171
Being reasonable, telling stories
Reflexivity and the Politics of Qualitative Research
Doing Time
Contemporary theory is full of references to modern and postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under pressure of feminist analysis? In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of modern and postmodern as opposing or antithetical terms. Rather, we need a historical perspective that is attuned to cultural and political differences within same time as …
Telling Time in Feminist Theory
This essay maps out four basic modes of feminist temporality that shape and circumscribe feminist thought: time as redemption, as regression, as repetition, and as rupture. The essay argues that to envision the shape of time is to be caught up in the expansive reaches of a moral and aesthetic vision. Time knits together the subjective and the social, the personal and the public; we forge links between our own lifetime and the larger historical pa…
Skillnadens doxa
In this article, Rita Felski explores the philosophical inconsistencies as well as the political problems of trying to ground feminism in difference. Feminist scholars may question particular images of difference for objectifying or exoticizing others. However, the force of this critique usually relies on the belief that there are real, genuine differences that are obscured by this false representation. Felski looks at two influential currents in…
Literature after Feminism
Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature After Feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. Spelling out her main arguments …
The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies
In this translation from his recent book, L'Instant ternel: Le retour du tragique dans les soci t s postmodernes, Michel Maffesol develops a diagnosis of the present that draws on the earlier arguments of The Shadow of Dionysus, The Time of the Tribes, and other works. According to Maffesoli, the project of modernity, defined as a future-oriented faith in individual development and political transformation, is reaching its end. Against those who …
Because it is beautiful
Uses of Literature
Sociology (30 obras) · Art (20 obras) · Philosophy (20 obras) · Epistemology (16 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Aesthetics (13 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Literature (10 obras)