LEADER 02687nam 22004455 450 001 9910794758003321 005 20230809233744.0 010 $a1-4798-2003-2 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479820030 035 $a(CKB)4340000000188596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4834265 035 $a(OCoLC)1000127412 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65723 035 $a(DE-B1597)547103 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479820030 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000188596 100 $a20200608h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Practices of Hope $eLiterary Criticism in Disenchanted Times /$fChristopher Castiglia 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (170 pages) 311 0 $a1-4798-1827-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Nation --$t2. Liberalism --$t3. Humanism --$t4. Symbolism --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aOffers 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. 606 $aCriticism 615 0$aCriticism. 676 $a801.95 700 $aCastiglia$b Christopher$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0595300 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794758003321 996 $aThe Practices of Hope$93803165 997 $aUNINA