Critique and postcritique / Elizabeth S. Anker & Rita Felski, editors.

Other author Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973- editor.
Other author Felski, Rita, 1956- editor.
Format Book
PublicationDurham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date©2017
Description329 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Criticism.
Criticism--Methodology.
Hermeneutics.

Contents "Nothing is hidden" : from confusion to clarity; or, Wittgenstein on critique / Toril Moi -- The Temptations : Donna Haraway, feminist objectivity, and the problem of critique / Heather Love -- The eighteenth-century origins of critique / Simon During -- Romancing the real : Bruno Latour, Ian McEwan, and postcritical monism / Jennifer L. Fleissner -- Symptomatic reading is a problem of form / Ellen Rooney -- A heap of cliché / C. Namwali Serpell -- Why we love Coetzee; or, The childhood of Jesus and the funhouse of critique / Elizabeth S. Anker -- Hope for critique? / Christopher Castiglia -- What are the politics of critique? The function of criticism at a different time / Russ Castronovo -- Tragedy and translation : a future for critique in a secular age / John Michael -- Then and now / Eric Hayot.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Critique and postcritique. Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 9780822373049
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