Criticism after Critique [electronic resource] : Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political /
Di Leo, Jeffrey R.author.
Di Leo, Jeffrey R.,editor.
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
Description based upon print version of record.
Criticism after Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Ruins of Critique; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Criticism, Judgment, and Value; Chapter 1: Criticism and Critique: A Genealogy; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2: Doing Literary Criticism and Making Value Judgments: What One Might Call "Good Writing"; Avowal and Disavowal of Good Writing in Minority Literary Criticism; Definitions of Art and Good Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Appreciating Appreciation; Notes; Works Cited
Chapter 4: Bumps on the Head, Touchstones of Intimacy, and the Vulnerability of the CriticNotes; Works Cited; Part II: Globalization, Historicism, and Ideology; Chapter 5: Critique and Its Postnational Aftermath: Dialogism and the "Planetary Condition"; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 6: The Criticism of Postcolonial Critique; Creolizing Critique; Opening the Critical Gap; Unfinished Quests; Conclusion: Ironic Utopias; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7: Critiques of Early Modern Criticism: Poetics, Historicism, and the Pitfalls of Periodization; Notes; Works Cited
Chapter 8: "Ideology Is Not All": Criticism after ŽižekNotes; Works Cited; Part III: Aesthetics and Anticritique; Chapter 9: Who Killed Critique?; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 10: Living in an Aesthetic Regime: The False Feeling of Life; Rancière's Aesthetic; Carson Meets Rancière; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11: Jacques Rancière: The Misadventures of Criticism and the Adventures of Hope; Criticism and Revelation; Politics and Romanticism; Art and Emancipation; Words and Deeds; Notes; Works Cited; Afterword; Works Cited; About the Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
Aesthetics.
Literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Aesthetics.
Literature, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.