Jeffrey R. Di Leo 
Criticism after Critique 
Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political

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.

Tabla de materias

Introduction: The Ruins of Critique; Jeffrey R. Di Leo PART I: CRITICISM, JUDGMENT, AND VALUE 1. Criticism and Critique: A Genealogy; David R. Shumway 2. Doing Literary Criticism, Making Value Judgments: What One Might Call ‘Good Writing’; Sue-Im Lee 3. Appreciating Appreciation; Charles Altieri 4. Bumps on the Head, Touchstones of Intimacy, and the Vulnerability of the Critic; Robert Chodat PART II: GLOBALIZATION, HISTORICISM, AND IDEOLOGY 5. Critique and Its Postnational Aftermath: Dialogism and the ‘Planetary Condition’; Christian Moraru 6. The Criticism of Postcolonial Critique; Nicole Simek 7. Critiques of Early Modern Criticism: Poetics, Historicism, and the Pitfalls of Periodization; Hassan Melehy 8. ‘Ideology is not all’: Criticism after Žižek; Zahi Zalloua PART III: AESTHETICS AND ANTI-CRITIQUE 9. Who Killed Critique?; Allen Dunn 10. Living In An Aesthetic Regime: The False Feeling Of Life; Alan Singer 11. Jacques Rancière: The Misadventures of Criticism and the Adventures of Hope; Brian O’Keeffe Afterword; R. M. Berry

Sobre el autor

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