Format:
viii, 228 Seiten
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22 cm
ISBN:
9780226293981
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9780226294032
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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IntroductionThe stakes of suspicion -- Digging down and standing back -- An inspector calls -- Crrritique -- "Context stinks!" -- In short.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226294179
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Felski, Rita, 1956 - The limits of critique Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015 ISBN 9780226294179
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literaturwissenschaft
;
Hermeneutik
;
Literaturkritik
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226294179.001.0001
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