The Limits of Critique

by Rita Felski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022629403X
• ISBN13: 9780226294032
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"