A colleague who received her phd in literature in 1998 once wistfully said to me. Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock argues for a new phenomenology in literary studies that incorporates. Rita felskis book is a refreshing literary manifesto that argues for the uses of literature. Rather, and this is what i most admire about it, uses of literature epitomizes a most valuable use of criticism. Literature after feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a cleareyed assessment of the relative merits of. Indeed, the magisterial bulk and sheer weightiness of that history still cast a long shadow over the present. Click download or read online button to uses of literature book pdf for free now. In a series of manifestoes, she has developed a sophisticated language. The aim of the program is to develop new interdisciplinary methods for analyzing the social uses of literature that avoid the reductive tendencies of traditional sociologies of literature. Uses of literature general literature subjects wiley.
Pdf the limits of critique download pdf free ebook. Download usesofliterature ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Professor of english at the university of virginia and the author of many books, most recently, the limits of critique. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read. It develops various frameworks for evaluating those debates. This money would help felski assemble a team of scholars to investigate the social uses of literature. Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grimfaced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. Uses of literature 2008 and limits of critique 2015. While the word uses denotes functionality and pragmatism, felski s thesis steers away from such utilitarian waters towards a balanced presentation of literary study. Distinguished scholar rita felskis recent book, uses of literature, is published in a series called blackwell manifestos.
Although felski expresses reluctance to call her book a manifesto, she. The social dimensions of literature sdu has been awarded a niels bohr professorship for professor rita felski, university of virginia. The subject of tragedy has preoccupied a formidable range of thinkers, from aristotle to hegel, from schopenhauer to lacan. This workshop will feature a presentation by rita felski, short presentations by scholars working on science novels, and a structured roundtable discussion. She edits a wellrespected professional journal, new literary history, and has published widely on feminism, modernism, postmodernism, aesthetics, and critical methods. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock argues for a new phenomenology in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social. The limits of critique should be required reading for all lovers of literature. Felski 5 offers a broader perspective on reading in the widelyread and comprehensive uses of literature.
Rita felski has 20 books on goodreads with 2333 ratings. Buy uses of literature wileyblackwell manifestos 1 by felski, rita isbn. The gender of modernity rita felski harvard university. Introduction critique and postcritique books gateway. With this unmanifesto felski seeks to provide a defense of literary studies that does not deny the affective dimensions namely pleasure of reading or denigrate the. Professor of english and chair of comparative literature at the university of virginia, and an associate editor of new literary history. Namwali serpell has outlined a phenomenological, postcritical reading of jim thompsons the killer inside me 1952 that exposes the limitations of purely ideological interpretations of the novel. Uses of literature rita felski by hymangentry issuu. By exploring its limits, felski frees critics from relying on critique as the gatekeeper of literary studies and offers a prescient guide to life in a postcritical world. She is the author of beyond feminist aesthetics, the gender of modernity, doing time.
Brian boyd, arts, humanities, sciences, uses elizabeth fowler, art and orientation r. Embodying human rights in world literature rita felski is william r. Read uses of literature by rita felski for online ebook. Rita felskis most popular book is the limits of critique. Rita felski, the uses of literature 2008 in the uses of literature, rita felski devises a critique of symptomatic reading as the standard operating procedure of literary studies today. Centre for uses of literature university of southern.
The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by rita felski. Berry, wittgensteins use jim collins, the use values of narrativity in digital cultures nancy easterlin, the functions of literature and the evolution of extended mind 44, 3 20 summer 20. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock argues for a new phenomenology in literary studies that incorporates the. Uses of literature and the case of the science novel. Download pdf usesofliterature free online new books. Uses of literature is a lively, sophisticated polemic about literary criticism and literary theorists extraordinarily wellwritten, intellectually expansive, drawing on a wide range of canonical and popular literature and film to illustrate felski s compelling account of literary value. Anker is associate professor of english at cornell university and the author of fictions of dignity. Each contribution will discuss contemporary science novels through the lens of one or both of prof. Uses of literature bridges the gap between literary theory and commonsense beliefs about why we read literature. Books by rita felski author of the limits of critique.
Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for. Some books are so incisive and timely that they seem inevitable. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock argues for a new phenomenology in literary studies that incorporates the historical. Felski argues that critique is a sensibility best captured by paul ricoeurs phrase the hermeneutics of suspicion. Felski distinguishes among four modes of textual engagement. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. She shows how this suspicion toward texts forecloses many potential readings while providing no guarantee of rigorous or radical thought. This introduction contextualizes recent debates over the merits of critique and postcritique within literary and cultural studies. Professor of english at the university of virginia and the editor of new literary history.
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