The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticisms in Disenchanted Times - Couverture souple

Castiglia, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479803553 ISBN 13 : 9781479803552

Editeur : New York University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Castiglia is Distinguished Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst; Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States; and, with Christopher Reed, If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past. He is co-founder of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and co-editor of its journal J19.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479803553
• ISBN 13: 9781479803552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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