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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ISBN
9780226294179
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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