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The look of love . . . through an analytic lens
Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love - as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry -…
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Provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. This book contains essays that address important areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. It explores…
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Rita Felski
Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What do they mean? Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Rita Felski…
The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary…
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The cariacatures of feminists as grim-faced ideologues destroying the study of literature are comprehensively rebutted in this work, offering instead a clear assessment of the relative merits of various feminist…
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…
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How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall…
A defence of literary realism in women’s writing and an attack on fashionable feminist theories of literature. Felski asserts that writing based on experience is more valuable than avant-garde or…
In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia…
Contributors: David J. Alworth, Anders Blok, Claudia Breger, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Yves Citton, Steven Connor, Gerard de Vries, Simon During, Rita Felski, Francis Halsall, Graham Harman, Antoine Hennion, Casper Bruun Jensen…
The contributors to Critique and Postcritique evaluate literary critique’s structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations while assessing the merits of the post-critical turn and exploring a range of alternate…
Amanda Anderson,Rita Felski,Toril Moi
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based…
An interdisciplinary collection illuminating how fashion shaped concepts and practices of femininity and modernity
Matthew Affron (Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
In the first U.S. retrospective of the painting of Emilie Charmy, Affron surveys key phases of Charmy’s artistic career in relation to major issues in modern French painting and Betzer…
