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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Mitrano, Mena (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Series:Cambridge EBA Collection
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • What is critique? : Three types of indocility
  • Theory : Thinking with literature
  • What is a critic? : Weak thought, weak theory, Italian theory
  • Language : The return to Saussure
  • Tradition : Eliot and work
  • Text and method : Cixous-Joyce-Lispector
  • Poststructuralism : Faith and Lacan
  • Conclusion : Depending on your neighbor.