Literary critique, modernism and the transformation of theory / Mena Mitrano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitrano, Mena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 What is Critique?: Three Types of Indocility

Chapter 2 Theory: Thinking with Literature

Chapter 3 What is a Critic?: Weak Thought, Weak Theory, Italian Theory

Chapter 4 Language: The Return to Saussure

Chapter 5 Tradition: Eliot and Work

Chapter 6 Text and Method: Cixous–Joyce– Lispector

Chapter 7 Poststructuralism: Faith and Lacan

Conclusion: Depending on Your Neighbor

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 9, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Mitrano, Mena Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory

ISBN:

1-3995-1325-7

1-3995-1324-9

OCLC:

1352967903