The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critics 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 Ricoeurs 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Rita Felski is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the editor of New Literary History. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Uses of Literature and Literature after Feminism, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Stakes of Suspicion 2 Digging Down and Standing Back 3 An Inspector Calls 4 Crrritique 5 "Context Stinks!" In Short Notes Index Review "A major theorist with a lively prose and an equally lively use of metaphor, Felski has always been where the action is. She has now written a book that will get all of us to take another look at what weve been doing. The Limits of Critique will shock some and elate others. No one will feel neutral, and no one can afford not to read this book."--Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"Felskis prose is bold and engaging throughout, and we are privy to her dexterous style which successfully surveys an expansive range of canonical and local critical narratives. . . . Painting a provocative landscape of contemporary critical practices, The Limits of Critique will undoubtedly resonate both with readers who are entrenched in the US culture that Felski describes as well as those external to it."-- "Textual Practice""Felskis punchy colloquial style eases our path . . . and her footnotes collect any number of easy-to-overlook gems . . . including not a few from the pages of New Literary History, the journal she has revived so impressively. . . . Her exasperation with the histrionics of critique and its bullying of literature is merited and persuasive."-- "American Literary History Online Review""Rita Felskis The Limits of Critique . . . argues compellingly that our critical habits have unwittingly become trapped within a range so pinched we can barely turn our heads to see that there might be other possibilities available. She offers a nuanced description of the state of theory-heavy academic literary critique, and some proposals for how we might finally start to move beyond it."-- "ArtsATL""Timely, well-written, and compelling. This is that rare book that offers persuasive answers to a question many literary scholars are asking today, yet also promises to open new conversations that will continue into the future. The Limits of Critique should be required reading for all lovers of literature."--Mary Poovey, New York University"Some books are so incisive and timely that they seem inevitable. . . . The Limits of Critique is such a book. By exploring its limits, Felski frees critics from relying on critique as the gatekeeper of literary studies and offers a prescient guide to life in a postcritical world."-- "Los Angeles Review of Books" Review Quote "What interests Felski is the critics task--which is to be suspicious of what lies beneath the surface of story, and she examines the methodology required to tease out that meaning and the variety of literary and psychological tools the critic uses to do so. Details ISBN022629403X Author Rita Felski Short Title LIMITS OF CRITIQUE Pages 240 Language English ISBN-10 022629403X ISBN-13 9780226294032 Media Book Format Paperback Residence VA, US Birth 1956 Affiliation University of Virginia, USA Year 2015 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2015-10-20 Publication Date 2015-10-20 NZ Release Date 2015-10-20 US Release Date 2015-10-20 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 809 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2015-10-19 Series Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96121083;

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