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Critique and Postcritique

Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski

Author : Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822373049

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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

Critique and Postcritique

Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski

Author : Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822363763

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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

Critique and Postcritique

Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski

Author : Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822363615

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Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski Pdf

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

The Limits of Critique

Rita Felski

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226294032

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Why do critics feel impelled to unmask and demystify the works that they read? What is the rationale for their conviction that language is always withholding some important truth, that the critic's task is to unearth what is unsaid, naturalized, or repressed? These are the features of critique, a mode of thought that thoroughly dominates academic criticism. In this book, Rita Felski brilliantly exposes critique's more troubling qualities and proposes alternatives to it. Critique, she argues, is not just a method but also a sensibility--one best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion." As the characteristic affect of critique, suspicion, Felski shows, helps us understand critique's seductions and limitations. The questions that Felski poses about critique have implications well beyond intramural debates among literary scholars. Literary studies, says Felski, is facing a legitimation crisis thanks to a sadly depleted language of value that leaves the field struggling to find reasons why students should care about Beowulf or Baudelaire. Why is literature worth bothering with? For Felski, the tendencies to make literary texts the object of suspicious reading or, conversely, impute to them qualities of critique, forecloses too many other possibilities. Felski offers an alternative model that she calls "postcritical reading." Rather than looking behind the text for its hidden causes, conditions, and motives, she suggests that literary scholars place themselves in front of a text, reflecting on what it calls forth and makes possible. Here Felski enlists the work of Bruno Latour to rethink reading as a co-production between actors, rather than an unraveling of manifest meaning, a form of making rather than unmaking. As a scholar with an abiding respect for theory who has long deployed elements of critique in her own work, Felski is able to provide an insider's account of critique's limits and alternatives that will resonate widely in the humanities.

Critical Resistance

David Couzens Hoy

Author : David Couzens Hoy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262582636

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This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? Can there be a poststructuralist ethics? David Hoy explores these crucial questions through lucid readings of Nietzsche, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, and others. He traces the genealogy of resistance from Nietzsche's break with the Cartesian concept of consciousness to Foucault's and Bourdieu's theories of how subjects are formed through embodied social practices. He also considers Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida on the sources of ethical resistance. Finally, in light of current social theory from Judith Butler to Slavoj Zizek, he challenges "poststructuralism" as a category and suggests the term "post-critique" as a more accurate description of contemporary Continental philosophy. Hoy is a leading American scholar of poststructuralism. Critical Resistance is the only book in English that deals substantively with the topical concept of resistance in relation to poststructuralist thought, discussions of which have dominated Continental social thought for many years.

Poetic Critique

Michel Chaouli,Jan Lietz,Jutta Müller-Tamm,Simon Schleusener

Author : Michel Chaouli,Jan Lietz,Jutta Müller-Tamm,Simon Schleusener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110688818

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Poetic critique – is that not an oxymoron? Do these two forms of behavior, the poetic and the critical, not pull in different, even opposite, directions? For many scholars working in the humanities today, they largely do, but that has not always been the case. Friedrich Schlegel, for one, believed that critique worthy of its name must itself be poetic. Only then would it stand a chance of responding adequately to the work of art. Taking Schlegel’s idea of poetische Kritik as a starting point, this volume reflects on the possibility of drawing these alleged opposites closer together. In light of current debates about the legacy of critique, it investigates whether a concept such as poetic critique (or poetic criticism) lends itself to enriching our intellectual practice by engaging with the poetic potential of criticism and the critical value of art and literature.

Joseph Conrad and Postcritique

Jay Parker,Joyce Wexler

Author : Jay Parker,Joyce Wexler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030724993

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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique by Jay Parker,Joyce Wexler Pdf

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad’s fiction—deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty—yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad’s skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy

Naomi Hodgson,Joris Vlieghe,Piotr Zamojski

Author : Naomi Hodgson,Joris Vlieghe,Piotr Zamojski
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781947447387

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Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy by Naomi Hodgson,Joris Vlieghe,Piotr Zamojski Pdf

The belief in the transformative potential of education has long underpinned critical educational theory. But its concerns have also been largely political and economic, using education as the means to achieve a better - or ideal - future state: of equality and social justice. Our concern is not whether such a state can be realized. Rather, the belief in the transformative potential of education leads us to start from the assumption of equality and to attend to what is "educational" about education. In Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy we set out five principles that call not for an education as a means to achieve a future state, but rather that make manifest those educational practices that do exist today and that we wish to defend. The Manifesto also acts as a provocation, as the starting point of a conversation about what this means for research, pedagogy, and our relation to our children, each other, and the world. Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy invites a shift from a critical pedagogy premised on revealing what is wrong with the world and using education to solve it, to an affirmative stance that acknowledges what is educational in our existing practices. It is focused on what we do and what we can do, if we approach education with love for the world and acknowledge that education is based on hope in the present, rather than on optimism for an eternally deferred future.

The Way We Argue Now

Amanda Anderson

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400826827

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How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Drawing on the resources of the liberal and rationalist tradition, Anderson interrogates the limits of identity politics and poststructuralism while holding to the importance of theory as a form of life. Considering high-profile trends as well as less noted patterns of argument, The Way We Argue Now addresses work in feminism, new historicism, queer theory, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, pragmatism, and proceduralism. The essays brought together here--lucid, precise, rigorously argued--combine pointed critique with an appreciative assessment of the productive internal contests and creative developments across these influential bodies of thought. Ultimately, The Way We Argue Now promotes a revitalized culture of argument through a richer understanding of the ways critical reason is practiced at the individual, collective, and institutional levels. Bringing to the fore the complexities of academic debate while shifting the terms by which we assess the continued influence of theory, it will appeal to readers interested in political theory, literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and the place of academic culture in society and politics.

The Ends of Critique

Kathrin Thiele,Birgit M. Kaiser,Timothy O'Leary

Author : Kathrin Thiele,Birgit M. Kaiser,Timothy O'Leary
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786616470

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The Ends of Critique by Kathrin Thiele,Birgit M. Kaiser,Timothy O'Leary Pdf

The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume’s reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.

New Directions in Law and Literature

Elizabeth S. Anker,Bernadette Meyler

Author : Elizabeth S. Anker,Bernadette Meyler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190456382

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New Directions in Law and Literature by Elizabeth S. Anker,Bernadette Meyler Pdf

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its many new directions. New Directions in Law and Literature furnishes an overview of where the field has been, its recent past, and its potential futures. Some of the essays examine the methodological choices that have affected the field; among these are concern for globalization, the integration of approaches from history and political theory, the application of new theoretical models from affect studies and queer theory, and expansion beyond text to performance and the image. Others grapple with particular intersections between law and literature, whether in copyright law, competing visions of alternatives to marriage, or the role of ornament in the law's construction of racialized bodies. The volume is designed to be a course book that is accessible to undergraduates and law students as well as relevant to academics with an interest in law and the humanities. The essays are simultaneously intended to be introductory and addressed to experts in law and literature. More than any other existing book in the field, New Directions furnishes a guide to the most exciting new work in law and literature while also situating that work within more established debates and conversations.

Uses of Literature

Rita Felski

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444359633

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Uses of Literature by Rita Felski Pdf

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social dimensions of reading Includes examples of literature from a wide range of national literary traditions

The Feeling of Reading

Rachel Ablow

Author : Rachel Ablow
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472051076

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The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature

The Order of Forms

Anna Kornbluh

Author : Anna Kornbluh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226653341

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The Order of Forms by Anna Kornbluh Pdf

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to—and substantially shifts—that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical formalisms in the nineteenth century. Within this framework, criticism can be understood as more affirmative and constructive, articulating commitments to aesthetic expression and social collectivity. Kornbluh offers a powerful argument that political formalism, by valuing forms of sociability like the city and the state in and of themselves, provides a better understanding of literary form and its political possibilities than approaches that view form as a constraint. To make this argument, she takes up the case of literary realism, showing how novels by Dickens, Brontë, Hardy, and Carroll engage mathematical formalism as part of their political imagining. Realism, she shows, is best understood as an exercise in social modeling—more like formalist mathematics than social documentation. By modeling society, the realist novel focuses on what it considers the most elementary features of social relations and generates unique political insights. Proposing both this new theory of realism and the idea of political formalism, this inspired, eye-opening book will have far-reaching implications in literary studies.

The Hundreds

Lauren Berlant,Kathleen Stewart

Author : Lauren Berlant,Kathleen Stewart
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478003335

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The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant,Kathleen Stewart Pdf

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.

Critique And Postcritique

Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski Pdf

Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski Pdf

Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker,Rita Felski Pdf

The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski Pdf

Critical Resistance by David Couzens Hoy Pdf

Poetic Critique by Michel Chaouli,Jan Lietz,Jutta Müller-Tamm,Simon Schleusener Pdf

Joseph Conrad and Postcritique by Jay Parker,Joyce Wexler Pdf

Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy by Naomi Hodgson,Joris Vlieghe,Piotr Zamojski Pdf

The Way We Argue Now by Amanda Anderson Pdf

The Ends of Critique by Kathrin Thiele,Birgit M. Kaiser,Timothy O'Leary Pdf

New Directions in Law and Literature by Elizabeth S. Anker,Bernadette Meyler Pdf

Uses of Literature by Rita Felski Pdf

The Feeling of Reading by Rachel Ablow Pdf

The Order of Forms by Anna Kornbluh Pdf

The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant,Kathleen Stewart Pdf

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