The Limits of Critique

The Limits of Critique

Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in 2-4 Wochen
34,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
PAYBACK Punkte
17 °P sammeln!
A powerful examination of the very idea of critique and its dominance in literary studies 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 show...