The Limits of Critique Paperback / softback
by Rita (University of Virginia, USA) Felski
Part of the Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith series
Paperback / softback
Description
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works?
Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed?
In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the 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 phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion." She shows how this suspicion toward texts forecloses many potential readings while providing no guarantee of rigorous or radical thought.
Instead, she suggests, literary scholars should try what she calls "postcritical reading": rather than looking behind a text for hidden causes and motives, literary scholars should place themselves in front of it and reflect on what it suggests and makes possible. By bringing critique down to earth and exploring new modes of interpretation, The Limits of Critique offers a fresh approach to the relationship between artistic works and the social world.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:20/10/2015
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- ISBN:9780226294032
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:20/10/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226294032
