Literary critique, modernism and the transformation of theory / Mena Mitrano.
"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...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2022.
|
| Series: | Cambridge EBA Collection
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399513241 1399513249 9781399513258 1399513257 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. |