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The contributors to Critique and Postcritique evaluate literary critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations while assessing the merits of the post-critical turn and exploring a range of alternate methods of literary criticism that may be better suited to the intellectual and political challenges of the present.

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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

Author Biography

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University and the author of Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature.Rita Felski is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of many books, most recently, The Limits of Critique.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski  1Part I. Countertraditions of Critique1. "Nothing Is Hidden": From Confusion to Clarity; or, Wittgenstein in Critique / Toril Moi  312. The Temptations: Donna Haraway, Feminist Objectivity, and the Problem of Critique / Heather Love  503. The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Critique / Simon During  73Part II. Styles of Reading4. Romancing the Real: Bruno Latour, Ian McEwan, and Postcritical Monism / Jennifer L. Fleissner  995. Symptomatic Reading Is a Problem of Form / Ellen Rooney  1276. A Heap of Cliché / C. Namwali Serpell  1537. Why We Love Coetzee; or, The Childhood of Jesus and the Funhouse of Critique / Elizabeth S. Anker  183Part III. Affects, Politics, Institutions8. Hope for Critique? / Christopher Castiglia  2119. What Are the Politics of Critique? The Function of Criticism at a Different Time / Russ Castronovo  23010. Tragedy and Translation: A Future for Critique in a Secular Age / John Michael  25211. Then and Now / Eric Hayot  279Bibliography  297About the Contributors  313Index  317

Review

"A thorough study that charts the changing landscape of literary studies without throwing out the old maps." -- Matthew Mullins * Symploke *"This volume will be a crucial reference for scholars in literary studies (especially those in American Studies), cultural studies, and more generally those interested in getting a sense of the state of the humanities." -- Maite Marciano * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *

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"This volume will be a crucial reference for scholars in literary studies (especially those in American Studies), cultural studies, and more generally those interested in getting a sense of the state of the humanities."

Details ISBN0822363615 Short Title CRITIQUE & POSTCRITIQUE Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822363615 ISBN-13 9780822363613 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2017 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Rita Felski DEWEY 801.95 Publication Date 2017-04-07 UK Release Date 2017-04-07 AU Release Date 2017-04-07 NZ Release Date 2017-04-07 US Release Date 2017-04-07 Author Rita Felski Birth 1944 Affiliation Professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine, Co-Director of the EMGO+ Institute and Head of the Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Position Professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine, Co-Director of the EMGO+ Institute and Head of the Department of Public and Occupational Health Qualifications PsyD, ABPP Pages 336 Alternative 9780822363767 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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