The limits of critique / Rita Felski

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felski, Rita, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Criticism--Methodology.

Hermeneutics.

Suspicion.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

The stakes of suspicion

Digging down and standing back

An inspector calls

Crrritique

"Context stinks!"

In short.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)

ISBN:

9780226294179

022629417X

9780226293981

OCLC:

920466753