Cold War criticism and the politics of skepticism / / Tobin Siebers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828193703321
• Autore: Siebers Tobin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0-19-772344-6; 1-280-52655-6; 0-19-535992-5; 1-4294-0776-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages)
• Collana: Odeon
• Disciplina: 801/.95/09045
• Soggetti: Criticism - Political aspects; Cold War in literature; Politics and literature; Critical theory; Skepticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1993.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Introduction: The Politics of Skepticism; 2. Cold War Criticism; 3. Ethics or Politics? Comparative Literature, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Literacy; 4. Mourning Becomes Paul de Man; 5. The Politics of the Politics of Interpretation; 6. The Politics of Storytelling: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem; 7. Conclusion: Toward a Post-Cold War Criticism; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this text, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era.