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The Work of Reading Literary Criticism in the 21st Century
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The Work of Reading [electronic resource] : Literary Criticism in the 21st Century / edited by Anirudh Sridhar, Mir Ali Hosseini, Derek Attridge.
ISBN
9783030711399
Edition
1st ed. 2021.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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1 online resource (XIX, 303 p.) 1 illus.
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Summary
The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods-including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others-and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts.
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May 24, 2021
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: "Criticism Today: Form, Critique, and the Experience of Literature", Derek Attridge
Chapter 2: "Is the Author Still Dead?", Henry Staten
Chapter 3: "Criticism and Attachment in the Neoliberal University", Mir Ali Hosseini
Chapter 4: "Darkness Visible: The Contingency of Critique", Ellen Rooney
Chapter 5: "Reading by Example: Disciplinary History for a Polemical Age", Doug Battersby
Chapter 6: "Does Knowledge Still Have a Home in the Humanities?", William Rasch
Chapter 7: "'Our Beloved Codex': Frank Kermode's Modesty", Ronan McDonald
Chapter 8: "Polonius as Anti-Close-Reader: Towards a Poetics of the Putz", Rachel Eisendrath
Chapter 9: "What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?", Simon Grimble
Chapter 10: "'Slow time,' 'a Brooklet, scarce espied': Close Reading, Cleanth Brooks, John Keats", Susan J. Wolfson
Chapter 11: "Poem as Field, Canon as Crystal", Anirudh Sridhar
Chapter 12: "Criticism and the Non-I, or, Rachel Cusk's Sentences", Tom Eyers
Chapter 13: "Ecocide and Objectivity: Literary Thinking in How the Dead Dream", Anna Kornbluh
Chapter 14: Afterword, Heather Dubrow.
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