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Criticism after Critique

Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political

  • Jeffrey R. Di Leo
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Jeffrey R. Di Leo
      Pages 1-11

  3. Criticism, Judgment, and Value

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. Criticism and Critique
      David R. Shumway
      Pages 15-25
    3. Doing Literary Criticism and Making Value Judgments
      Sue-Im Lee
      Pages 27-43
    4. Appreciating Appreciation
      Charles Altieri
      Pages 45-65
    5. Bumps on the Head, Touchstones of Intimacy, and the Vulnerability of the Critic
      Robert Chodat
      Pages 67-96

  4. Globalization, Historicism, and Ideology

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. Critique and Its Postnational Aftermath
      Christian Moraru
      Pages 99-112
    3. The Criticism of Postcolonial Critique
      Nicole Simek
      Pages 113-126
    4. Critiques of Early Modern Criticism
      Hassan Melehy
      Pages 127-140
    5. Ideology is Not All
      Zahi Zalloua
      Pages 141-153

  5. Aesthetics and Anticritique

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 155-155
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    2. Who Killed Critique?
      Allen Dunn
      Pages 157-170
    3. Living in an Aesthetic Regime
      Alan Singer
      Pages 171-182
    4. Jacques Rancière
      Brian O’Keeffe
      Pages 183-208
    5. Afterword
      R. M. Berry
      Pages 209-215
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 217-229
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About this book

Introduction

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.

Keywords

aesthetics critique literary criticism

Editors and affiliations

  • Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    • 1
  1. 1.University of Houston-VictoriaUSA

About the editors

Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, USA R. M. Berry, Florida State University, USA Robert Chodat, Boston University, USA Allen Dunn, University of Tennessee, USA Sue-Im Lee, Temple University, USA Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA Brian O'Keeffe, Barnard College, USA David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA Alan Singer, Temple University, USA Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA

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