The Work of reading 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Sridhar, Anirudh
• Hosseini, Mir Ali
• Attridge, Derek

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030711399

Series

Subject(s)

• LITERATURE--PHILOSOPHY
• MOTION PICTURES

Notes

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Abstract

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods—including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others—and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xix, 303 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Chapter 1: Introduction: Criticism Today: Form, Critique, and the Experience of Literature / Derek Attridge --
Chapter 2: Is the Author Still Dead? / Henry Staten --
Chapter 3: Criticism and Attachment in the Neoliberal University / Mir Ali Hosseini --
Chapter 4: Darkness Visible: The Contingency of Critique / Ellen Rooney --
Chapter 5: Reading by Example: Disciplinary History for a Polemical Age / Doug Battersby --
Chapter 6: Does Knowledge Still Have a Home in the Humanities? / William Rasch --
Chapter 7: Our Beloved Codex: Frank Kermodes Modesty / Ronan McDonald --
Chapter 8: Polonius as Anti-Close-Reader: Towards a Poetics of the Putz / Rachel Eisendrath --
Chapter 9: What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be? / Simon Grimble --
Chapter 10: Slow time, a Brooklet, scarce espied: Close Reading, Cleanth Brooks, John Keats / Susan J. Wolfson --
Chapter 11: Poem as Field, Canon as Crystal / Anirudh Sridhar --
Chapter 12: Criticism and the Non-I, or, Rachel Cusks Sentences / Tom Eyers --
Chapter 13: Ecocide and Objectivity: Literary Thinking in How the Dead Dream / Anna Kornbluh --
Chapter 14: Afterword / Heather Dubrow.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00859/21	801.950905 Wor	Online !	Available