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The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times by Christopher Castiglia Details

Offers a positive approach to literary criticism at a moment when the "interpretation of doubt" of fire in literary studies encourages "practices of hope" an alternative approach, rather than abandoning…

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Offers a positive approach to literary criticism at a moment when the "interpretation of doubt" of fire in literary studies encourages "practices of hope" an alternative approach, rather than abandoning criticism altogether, abandons its commitment to free illusion. As an alternative, Castilea offers a hopeful reading, a mixture of idealism and imagination that still retains its analytical superiority, beyond what it says to explain the values ​​that shape our curves and create the possible worlds that stimulate real social criticism. Drawing on a variety of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from Granville Hicks and Constance Rourke to Louis Mumford, C.L.R.

James, Charles Fidelson, and Richard Bourier, Castilla explain that their critique at the same time denounced the social conditions of the United States in the Cold War and the ideal worlds proposed as more democratic alternatives. Organized around a series of terms that have become anathema to the nation of critics, liberalism, humanity, and symbolism - the "practices of hope" showing how they were employed in the "exploitable past" of criticism to generate alternative criticism, a practice of hope..



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