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 lim...
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 shows how this suspicion toward texts forecloses many potential readings while providing no guarantee of rigorous or radical thought. Instead, she suggests, literary scholars should try what she calls “postcritical reading”: rather than looking behind a text for hidden causes and motives, literary scholars should place themselves in front of it and reflect on what it suggests and makes possible.
By bringing critique down to earth and exploring new modes of interpretation, The Limits of Critique offers a fresh approach to the relationship between artistic works and the social world.
Rita Felski is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the editor of New Literary History. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Uses of Literature.
目录
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Stakes of Suspicion
2 Digging Down and Standing Back
3 An Inspector Calls
4 Crrritique
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Stakes of Suspicion
2 Digging Down and Standing Back
3 An Inspector Calls
4 Crrritique
5 “Context Stinks!”
In Short
Notes
Index
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有一种盛行的精神气质（ethos），鼓励学者们用隐含的起因和无意识的动机来指责其他人的论证，却又自以为免于同样的指控：“我对权力说真话，而你是新自由主义利益的走狗。”
a prevailing ethos encourages scholars to impute hidden causes and unconscious motives to the arguments of others, while exempting themselves from the same charge: “I speak
truth to power, while you are a pawn of neoliberal interests!”
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0 有用 胡桃夹子 2021-12-24 18:26:25
point well taken，但也太啰嗦了。关于temporality的部分值得参考，cf. Dimock
0 有用 MoonyLee 2024-01-17 01:03:08 江苏
Charming writing
0 有用 Franger 2022-10-26 23:15:34 英国
Rita Felski为了讲一件很简单的事，对这几十年来的所有流派进行了一番学术史梳理+批判，最后从逻辑上论证了一种温和（相较于原教旨地使用拉图尔理论而言）的类拉图尔式的文本阅读方法如何可行。Felski尽力在把事情说得很简单，但是要梳理这么多年以来的文科黑话的逻辑本身就不是什么易事。最后她还是想不落在”批判的批判“的文字游戏上，希望能有一种成熟的方式来驱逐怀疑论的诱惑，当然实际在实践中还是很难执... Rita Felski为了讲一件很简单的事，对这几十年来的所有流派进行了一番学术史梳理+批判，最后从逻辑上论证了一种温和（相较于原教旨地使用拉图尔理论而言）的类拉图尔式的文本阅读方法如何可行。Felski尽力在把事情说得很简单，但是要梳理这么多年以来的文科黑话的逻辑本身就不是什么易事。最后她还是想不落在”批判的批判“的文字游戏上，希望能有一种成熟的方式来驱逐怀疑论的诱惑，当然实际在实践中还是很难执行。 (展开)
0 有用 蒂姆 2021-11-30 02:12:21
felski的writing style我真喜欢 俏皮活泼 想和她上contemporary theory的课
0 有用 JANE 2024-02-25 18:20:04 广东
感觉看导读就够了，因为导读就开始说重复话了（未读完）