| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge EBA Collection |
| Contents |
Introduction -- What is critique? : Three types of indocility -- Theory : Thinking with literature -- What is a critic? : Weak thought, weak theory, Italian theory -- Language : The return to Saussure -- Tradition : Eliot and work -- Text and method : Cixous-Joyce-Lispector -- Poststructuralism : Faith and Lacan -- Conclusion : Depending on your neighbor |
| Summary |
"Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices. Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This 'living thought' cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. Mena Mitrano demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is an a stance towards others including indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
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Print version record |
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Criticism.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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philosophy.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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Criticism
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Photography & photographs.
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Biography, literature & literary studies.
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Literary theory.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781399513241 |
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1399513249 |
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9781399513258 |
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1399513257 |
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