The Limits of Critique PDF
By:Rita Felski
Published on 2015-10-20 by University of Chicago Press
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.
This Book was ranked at 41 by Google Books for keyword History Criticism Criticism Theory novel.
Book ID of The Limits of Critique's Books is jtspCwAAQBAJ, Book which was written byRita Felskihave ETAG "yAfTEVvB0sU"
Book which was published by University of Chicago Press since 2015-10-20 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780226294032 and ISBN 10 Code is 022629403X
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "228 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryLiterary Criticism
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download The Limits of Critique PDF Free
Download The Limits of Critique Books Free
Download The Limits of Critique Free
Download The Limits of Critique PDF
Download The Limits of Critique Books
No comments:
Post a Comment