Christopher Castiglia

The Practices of Hope (eBook, ePUB)

Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 criticsnation, liberalism, humanism, symbolismThe Practices of Hope shows how they were employed in criticism's usable past to generate an alternative critique, a practice of hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781479822263
• Artikelnr.: 49751138

Autorenporträt

Christopher Castiglia