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The Practices of Hope - Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times (Paperback)
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The Practices of Hope - Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times (Paperback)
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Offers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when
the "hermeneutics of suspicion" is under fire in literary studies,
The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that,
rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its
commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers
hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that
retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying to articulate
the values that shape our scholarship and creates the possible
worlds that animate genuine social critique. Drawing on a variety
of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from
Granville Hicks and Constance Rourke to Lewis Mumford, C.L.R.
James, Charles Feidelson, and Richard Poirier, Castiglia
demonstrates that their criticism simultaneously denounced the
social conditions of the Cold War United States and proposed ideal
worlds as more democratic alternatives. Organized around a series
of terms that have become anathema to critics-nation, liberalism,
humanism, symbolism-The Practices of Hope shows how they were
employed in criticism's "usable past" to generate an alternative
critique, a practice of hope.
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