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The Limits of Critique

Paperback • 2015 • English

The Limits of Critique

By Rita Felski

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About the book

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates it as but one method among many, a method with strong allure-but also definite limits. Felski argues that critique is a sensibility best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion....Show more

Literary theory
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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9780226294032

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

The Limits of Critique

Format

Paperback

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