Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory

By Mena Mitrano

Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This 'living thought' cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. Mena Mitrano demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is an a stance towards others including indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399513222
• ISBN13: 9781399513227
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"