Critique and Postcritique
Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations. Following the interventions made by Bruno Latour, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, and others, the contributors assess the merits of the postcritical turn while exploring a range of alternate methods and critical orientations. Among other topics, the contributors challenge the distinction between surface and deep reading; outline how critique-based theory has shaped the development of the novel; examine Donna Haraway's feminist epistemology and objectivity; advocate for a "hopeful" critical disposition; highlight the difference between reading as method and critique as genre; and question critique's efficacy at attending to the affective dimensions of experience. In these and other essays this volume outlines the state of contemporary literary criticism while pointing to new ways of conducting scholarship that are better suited to the intellectual and political challenges of the present. Contributors: Elizabeth S. Anker, Christopher Castiglia, Russ Castronovo, Simon During, Rita Felski, Jennifer L. Fleissner, Eric Hayot, Heather Love, John Michael, Toril Moi, Ellen Rooney, C. Namwali Serpell
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Introduction / Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski 1 Part I. Countertraditions of Critique 1. "Nothing Is Hidden": From Confusion to Clarity; or, Wittgenstein in Critique / Toril Moi 31 2. The Temptations: Donna Haraway, Feminist Objectivity, and the Problem of Critique / Heather Love 50 3. The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Critique / Simon During 73 Part II. Styles of Reading 4. Romancing the Real: Bruno Latour, Ian McEwan, and Postcritical Monism / Jennifer L. Fleissner 99 5. Symptomatic Reading Is a Problem of Form / Ellen Rooney 127 6. A Heap of ClichÉ / C. Namwali Serpell 153 7. Why We Love Coetzee; or, The Childhood of Jesus and the Funhouse of Critique / Elizabeth S. Anker 183 Part III. Affects, Politics, Institutions 8. Hope for Critique? / Christopher Castiglia 211 9. What Are the Politics of Critique? The Function of Criticism at a Different Time / Russ Castronovo 230 10. Tragedy and Translation: A Future for Critique in a Secular Age / John Michael 252 11. Then and Now / Eric Hayot 279 Bibliography 297 About the Contributors 313 Index 317
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