Cold War criticism and the politics of skepticism / Tobin Siebers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siebers, Tobin, author.

Series:

Odeon.

Oxford scholarship online.

Odeon

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Political aspects.

Criticism.

Cold War in literature.

Politics and literature.

Critical theory.

Skepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 163 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this text, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction: The Politics of Skepticism; 2. Cold War Criticism; 3. Ethics or Politics? Comparative Literature, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Literacy; 4. Mourning Becomes Paul de Man; 5. The Politics of the Politics of Interpretation; 6. The Politics of Storytelling: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem; 7. Conclusion: Toward a Post-Cold War Criticism; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-772344-6

1-280-52655-6

0-19-535992-5

1-4294-0776-X

OCLC:

191932219