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Philosophy
Aesthetics
Literary Theory
Twentieth-Century Literature
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Who Killed Critique?
The question “what comes after critique?” allows for two contrasting kinds of answers. The first expresses our hopes and aspirations; it elaborates a path that we would like our discipline to follow and generou.....
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Criticism and Critique
The charge given to the contributors of this volume asked, “How do we engage in criticism at a time when critique seems to have run its course? What does sustained theoretical research and discussion look like .....
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Introduction
Critique is beyond reproach, or so it seems. Since at least the 1970s, when elegant and close structuralist, deconstructive, Marxist, and psychoanalytic interpretations began to seriously compete with older, mo.....
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Living in an Aesthetic Regime
Jacques Rancière is the contemporary thinker who most vociferously promotes aesthetic experience as the vital antidote to moribund thinking: the all too heritable wisdom of traditional critique. Critique is jud.....
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Afterword
That the question of what is meant by criticism and critique seems internal to each, making up a topic that both have traditionally assigned themselves, is what, at least to my ear, gives the writings in this v.....
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Ideology is Not All
The question of ideology and how it relates to criticism is a highly contested matter in literary theory. For some on the Left, the relation is merely one of subordination: criticism is ultimately reducible to .....
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Jacques Rancière
Assessing the prospects of criticism is a potentially gloomy task. For if we are speaking of social and cultural criticism, for instance, the targets of that criticism remain: bourgeois consumerist society, the.....
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Appreciating Appreciation
This essay constitutes one aspect of an overall project to spell out the implications for the literary arts of Wittgenstein’s systematic distinction between acts of description that carry truth values and acts .....
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Critique and Its Postnational Aftermath
The question, or questions rather, go, as far as I am concerned, something like this: Is critique inescapably circumscribed by mid-twentieth-century Kritik? If so—and on this ground—is critique also perhaps outmo...
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Critiques of Early Modern Criticism
Whether or not we were already involved with the academic profession in the 1980s, most of us have heard quite a bit about the so-called theory wars of that time. The existence of this institute is an indicatio.....
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Doing Literary Criticism and Making Value Judgments
This essay begins with the question, “Is doing literary criticism a process of making value judgments?” My answer is “of course it is.” Who would say that literary criticism makes judgments according to objecti.....
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Bumps on the Head, Touchstones of Intimacy, and the Vulnerability of the Critic
Warnings about fiction, images, and other artifacts are as ancient as Plato, but they have a particular shape in modernity when, broadly put, the question becomes less if they promote virtue than if they promot.....
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The Criticism of Postcolonial Critique
Since the turn of the millennium, postcolonial criticism has evidenced growing concern for an emerging “post-postcolonial” turn or moment and the (in)adequacy of postcolonial models of critique for addressing n.....
