Literary critique, modernism and the transformation of theory /
"Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices. Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum o...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2022.
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| Edice: | Cambridge EBA Collection
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3464795 |
| Shrnutí: | "Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices. Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This 'living thought' cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. Mena Mitrano demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is an a stance towards others including indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder"-- |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399513241 1399513249 9781399513258 1399513257 9781399513227 1399513222 |