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Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices

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Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theorydemonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theoryacts asthe fulcrum of a more inclusive and lesscombative notion of critique. This 'living thought'cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifslinked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. Mena Mitrano demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is a stance towards others including indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder.

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Sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critiqueWhile connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, this study draws on Italian Theory to provide an alternative critical method in literary studies, including the ethical underpinnings of critique. It proposes that critique is an attitude and stance towards others and a set of dispositions toward the object of study, such as indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder. It deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and it elaborates on the potential of feminism and psychoanalysis to open up affirmative resources in language. Drawing on archival materials, the book includes sustained readings of Benjamin, Butler, Foucault, Jameson, Dimock, Esposito, Saussure, Virno, H

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Sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critiqueWhile connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, this study draws on Italian Theory to provide an alternative critical method in literary studies, including the ethical underpinnings of critique. It proposes that critique is an attitude and stance towards others and a set of dispositions toward the object of study, such as indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder. It deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and it elaborates on the potential of feminism and psychoanalysis to open up affirmative resources in language. Drawing on archival materials, the book includes sustained readings of Benjamin, Butler, Foucault, Jameson, Dimock, Esposito, Saussure, Virno, H

Author Biography

Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research area is theoretical-critical thought, which she explores from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her work covers major critical theorists (Walter Benjamin), psychoanalysis (Ferenczi), great women thinkers (Hannah Arendt). She is the author of studies on Gertrude Stein and Susan Sontag, major American women intellectuals who shaped the link between modernism and theory:Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities (2005) and In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh University Press 2016). She has written on language and literature and is interested in exploring literary/philosophical borders. She was educated at Rutgers University and has been a Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College.

Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Hollow forms Postcritique Overview and roadmap Reality Persons and volcanoes Againstness (and Euro-American relations) The plane of coevalness Chapter 1 What is Critique? Three Types of Indocility Reflective indocility Incredulity and debt The criterion of life Criticism and critique Chapter 2 Theory: Thinking with Literature "Reading literature, not theory" "Not philosophy but a preparation for literary criticism" Postmodernism I-experience M

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"Mena Mitrano recasts the literary scholar's work in terms of an essential commitment to knowing and thinking the world through its texts. Written with ethical seriousness and theoretical suppleness, Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory is a bold program for literary scholars and students, under pressure from forces inside and beyond the contemporary academy, to reengage critique as a practice of gracious attention, radical reconstitution and creative experimentation." -Alix Beeston, Cardiff University

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Mena Mitrano recasts the literary scholar's work in terms of an essential commitment to knowing and thinking the world through its texts. Written with ethical seriousness and theoretical suppleness, Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory is a bold program for literary scholars and students, under pressure from forces inside and beyond the contemporary academy, to reengage critique as a practice of gracious attention, radical reconstitution and creative experimentation

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Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices

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Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices It sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critique which will open new avenues of research especially with regard to the formation of disciplines and critical method in literary studies It deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and discusses theory as much more than a transatlantic moment of modernization It elaborates on the potential of feminism and psychoanalysis to respond to the new relational ontologies by opening up affirmative resources in language Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This 'living thought' cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. Mena Mitrano demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is an a stance towards others including indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder.

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It sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critique which will open new avenues of research especially with regard to the formation of disciplines and critical method in literary studies It deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and discusses theory as much more than a transatlantic moment of modernization It elaborates on the potential of feminism and psychoanalysis to respond to the new relational ontologies by opening up affirmative resources in language It includes sustained readings of Benjamin, Butler, Foucault, Jameson, Dimock, Esposito, Saussure, Virno, H

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Literary Criticism; Literary Theory; Literary Critique; Modern Literary Theory; Modernism; Modernist Literature; Critical Theory; Continental Thought; Art History

Details ISBN1399513222 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 2022 ISBN-10 1399513222 ISBN-13 9781399513227 Format Hardcover Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-12-31 Illustrations 13 B/W illustrations 5 colour illustrations Contains 13 b&w and 5 colour images Author Mena Mitrano Publication Date 2022-12-13 UK Release Date 2022-12-13 Pages 296 DEWEY 801.95 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-03-21 Alternative 9781399513234 We've got this

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