The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

by Christopher Castiglia

Book Overview

Offers a positive approach to literary criticism

At a moment when the "hermeneutics of suspicion" is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479803553
• ISBN13: 9781479803552
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"