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This introduction contextualizes recent debates over the merits of critique and postcritique within literary and cultural studies. The social dimensions of literature sdu has been awarded a niels bohr professorship for professor rita felski, university of virginia. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock argues for a new phenomenology in literary studies that incorporates the historical. In particular, it understands critique as a genre that can be characterized by a distinct style, tone, structure of analysis, and set of rhetorical. Feminist theory and postmodern culture, and literature after feminism. This money would help felski assemble a team of scholars to investigate the social uses of literature.
Anker is associate professor of english at cornell university and the author of fictions of dignity. Rita felski, in the uses of literature, reads manuel puigs kiss of the spider woman as an exercise in aesthetic reeducation, and c. Uses of literature is a lively, sophisticated polemic about literary criticism and literary theorists extraordinarily wellwritten, intellectually expansive, drawing on a wide range of canonical and popular literature and film to illustrate felski s compelling account of literary value. Challenging many timeworn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, uses of literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature. Felski, the uses of literature approximatelyforever. The limits of critique should be required reading for all lovers of literature. Introduction critique and postcritique books gateway. Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock. With this unmanifesto felski seeks to provide a defense of literary studies that does not deny the affective dimensions namely pleasure of reading or denigrate the. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. She is the author of beyond feminist aesthetics, the gender of modernity, doing time. For felski, the windfall validates a nearly decadelong push to change the way literature and other art forms are studied. Felski distinguishes among four modes of textual engagement. Enchantment uses of literature felski wiley online.
Each contribution will discuss contemporary science novels through the lens of one or both of prof. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, uses of literature and literature after feminism, the latter also published by the university of chicago press. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for. A manifesto for positive aesthetics rita felski, uses of. Felski argues that critique is a sensibility best captured by paul ricoeurs 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. The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by rita felski. Professor of english and chair of comparative literature at the university of virginia, and an associate editor of new literary history. Brian boyd, arts, humanities, sciences, uses elizabeth fowler, art and orientation r. Uses of literature general literature subjects wiley.
Namwali serpell has outlined a phenomenological, postcritical reading of jim thompsons the killer inside me 1952 that exposes the limitations of purely ideological interpretations of the novel. Download usesofliterature ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Uses of literature is a lively, sophisticated polemic about literary criticism and literary theorists extraordinarily wellwritten, intellectually expansive, drawing on a wide range of canonical and popular literature and film to illustrate felskis compelling account of literary value. Uses of literature 2008 and limits of critique 2015. By exploring its limits, felski frees critics from relying on critique as the gatekeeper of literary studies and offers a prescient guide to life in a postcritical world. Rita felskis most popular book is the limits of critique. Uses of literature bridges the gap between literary theory and commonsense beliefs about why we read literature explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read. Rita felski has 20 books on goodreads with 2333 ratings. Rita felski s book is a refreshing literary manifesto that argues for the uses of literature. Download pdf usesofliterature free online new books. The aim of the program is to develop new interdisciplinary methods for analyzing the social uses of literature that avoid the reductive tendencies of traditional sociologies of literature. Uses of literature by rita felski overdrive rakuten. Rita felski, the uses of literature 2008 in the uses of literature, rita felski devises a critique of symptomatic reading as the standard operating procedure of literary studies today. Introduction rita felski t o rethink tragedy is, of necessity, to acknowledge a history of prior thought.
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