02687nam 22004455 450 991079475800332120230809233744.01-4798-2003-210.18574/9781479820030(CKB)4340000000188596(MiAaPQ)EBC4834265(OCoLC)1000127412(MdBmJHUP)muse65723(DE-B1597)547103(DE-B1597)9781479820030(EXLCZ)99434000000018859620200608h20172017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Practices of Hope Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times /Christopher CastigliaNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (170 pages)1-4798-1827-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Nation --2. Liberalism --3. Humanism --4. Symbolism --Notes --References --Index --About the AuthorOffers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when the “hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying to articulate the values that shape our scholarship and creates the possible worlds that animate genuine social critique. Drawing on a variety of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from Granville Hicks and Constance Rourke to Lewis Mumford, C.L.R. James, Charles Feidelson, and Richard Poirier, Castiglia demonstrates that their criticism simultaneously denounced the social conditions of the Cold War United States and proposed ideal worlds as more democratic alternatives. Organized around a series of terms that have become anathema to critics—nation, liberalism, humanism, symbolism—The Practices of Hope shows how they were employed in criticism’s “usable past” to generate an alternative critique, a practice of hope.CriticismCriticism.801.95Castiglia Christopherauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut595300DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910794758003321The Practices of Hope3803165UNINA