The limits of critique / Rita Felski.
Felski, Rita, 1956- author.
2015
PN81 .F44 2015eb
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Title The limits of critique / Rita Felski.
Author Felski, Rita, 1956- author.
ISBN 9780226294179 (electronic book)
022629417X (electronic book)
9780226293981
022629398X
9780226294032
022629403X
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages.)
Call Number PN81 .F44 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 801/.95
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.
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Introduction
The stakes of suspicion
Digging down and standing back
An inspector calls
Crrritique
"Context stinks!"
In short.

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