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The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

Sridhar, Anirudh
Hosseini, Mir Ali
Attridge, Derek

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Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceFilm Studies

ISBN10: 3030711382
ISBN13: 9783030711382
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 18 2021
Pages: 303
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods--including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others--and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts.

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