The Practices of Hope : : Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times / / Christopher Castiglia.
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 alterna...
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Castiglia, Christopher, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Practices of Hope : Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times / Christopher Castiglia. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Nation -- 2. Liberalism -- 3. Humanism -- 4. Symbolism -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110728972 print 9781479818273 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479818273.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479820030 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479820030/original |
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