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100			_aFelski, Rita.
245			_aThe limits of critique. _c/Rita Felski.
260			_a, Chicago _b: The University of Chicago Press _c, 2015.
300			_a viii, 228 pages _c ; 23 cm.
365			_b1576
520			_aWhy 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 by Paul Ricoeur's phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion." She shows how this suspicion toward texts forecloses many potential readings while providing no guarantee of rigorous or radical thought. Instead, she suggests, literary scholars should try what she calls "postcritical reading": rather than looking behind a text for hidden causes and motives, literary scholars should place themselves in front of it and reflect on what it suggests and makes possible. By bringing critique down to earth and exploring new modes of interpretation, The Limits of Critique offers a fresh approach to the relation between artistic works and the social world.
650			_aCritique
650			_aSuspicion
650			_aLiterary criticism
650			_aHermeneutics
700			_aRita Felski
942			_cBOOK
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