Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook323 pages5 hours
The Limits of Critique
By Rita Felski
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
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.
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.
Unavailable
Read more from Rita Felski
The Limits of Critique Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHooked: Art and Attachment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Literature after Feminism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to The Limits of Critique
Related ebooks
The Ethics of Criticism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Philosophy of the Unsayable Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Time and Narrative, Volume 3 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Time and Narrative, Volume 2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Material Feminisms Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Senses of the Subject Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emancipated Spectator Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Practice of Everyday Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFoucault's Critical Ethics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Politics of Friendship Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTheory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Communities in Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Future of the Image Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing Against Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Derrida after the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Philosophy of Autobiography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rhetoric of Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret History: by Donna Tartt | Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCirce: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Limits of Critique
Rating: 3.6666666666666665 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
3 ratings0 reviews