Abstract:What kind of action is literary criticism? In literary criticism: a concise political history , Joseph North tells us up front: it's political action. His history “is explicitly motivated by present c...What kind of action is literary criticism? In literary criticism: a concise political history , Joseph North tells us up front: it's political action. His history “is explicitly motivated by present concerns: one has something like a goal, and something like a plan for reaching it,” and his goal is to persuade “readers on the radical left” that there is something at stake for them in “an extended discussion of matters literary, aesthetic, and methodological” (viii, ix, x). Or, rather, his goal is to persuade both readers on the left and “readers within and around academic literary studies” that their interests align: that the “materialist account of the aesthetic” at the root of close reading is “properly understood as part of a longer history of resistance to the economic, political, and cultural systems that prevent us from cultivating deeper modes of life” (x).Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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