Critique and Postcritique

Dados Bibliográficos

ID24176011
EditoresElizabeth S Anker, Rita Felski (0000-0001-6493-3668)
Ano2017
Data de publicação2017-03-10
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoCritique and Postcritique (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822373049
ISBN9780822373049
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24

Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations. Following the interventions made by Bruno Latour, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, and others, the contributors assess the merits of the postcritical turn while exploring a range of alternate methods and critical orientations. Among other topics, the contributors challenge the distinction between surface and deep reading; outline how critique-based theory has shaped the development of the novel; examine Donna Haraway's feminist epistemology and objectivity; advocate for a hopeful critical disposition; highlight the difference between reading as method and critique as genre; and question critique's efficacy at attending to the affective dimensions of experience. In these and other essays this volume outlines the state of contemporary literary criticism while pointing to new ways of conducting scholarship that are better suited to the intellectual and political challenges of the present. Contributors: Elizabeth S. Anker, Christopher Castiglia, Russ Castronovo, Simon During, Rita Felski, Jennifer L. Fleissner, Eric Hayot, Heather Love, John Michael, Toril Moi, Ellen Rooney, C. Namwali Serpell

Art · Conversation · Critical theory · Criticism · Epistemology · Futures contract · Literary criticism · Literature · Objectivity (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Scholarship · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology