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The Practices of Hope
- Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Engelsk Paperback
The Practices of Hope
- Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Engelsk Paperback

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Offers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when the "hermeneutics of suspicion" is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying to articulate the values that shape our scholarship and creates the possible worlds that animate genuine social critique. Drawing on a variety of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from Granville Hicks and Constance Rourke to Lewis Mumford, C.L.R. James, Charles Feidelson, and Richard Poirier, Castiglia demonstrates that their criticism simultaneously denounced the social conditions of the Cold War United States and proposed ideal worlds as more democratic alternatives. Organized around a series of terms that have become anathema to critics—nation, liberalism, humanism, symbolism—The Practices of Hope shows how they were employed in criticism's "usable past" to generate an alternative critique, a practice of hope.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781479803552
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1479803553
Udg. Dato:
26 sep 2017
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
New York University Press
Oplagsdato:
26 sep 2017
Forfatter(e):
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