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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Castiglia |
ISBN: | 9781479818273 1479818275 9781479803552 1479803553 |
OCLC Number: | 987909554 |
Description: | xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: practices of hope and tales of disenchantment -- Nation: I like America -- Liberalism: Richard Chase's liberal allegories -- Humanism: the cant of pessimism and Newton Arvin's queer humanism -- Symbolism: the queerness of symbols. |
Responsibility: | Christopher Castiglia. |
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The Practices of Hopeis a brilliant and bracing polemic that addresses the fraught conditions of literary criticism as practiced in the academy today. Both a diagnosis of our current situation and a timely and provocative recommendation about what we might be doing otherwise, Christopher Castiglia shows a way forward that combines pleasure and politics, exemplifying the very thing he advocates. -- Christopher Looby,series editor of Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century The Practices of Hopeis an exhilarating book.Astute, compelling, and lucidly written, the book argues that scholars no longer practice the open embrace of imaginative idealism that the founders of American Studies used as a method of & critical hope. Offering a canny study of the mid-century criticism that is the foundation of the discipline, Castiglia provides an important corrective to the way we currently approach our work as scholars and thinkers. -- Nancy Bentley,author of Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Read more...

