Theory in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

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Mythologies

The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

by Roland Barthes ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies ... Read more

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What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies
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Craft in the Real World

Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

by Matthew Salesses ...

Narrated by Matthew Salesses ...

Unabridged

5 hours 56 min

This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review).The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural ... Read more

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This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review).The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural
... Read more
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Beginning theory

An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

by Peter Barry ...

Narrated by Lucy Scott ...

Series series Beginnings
Unabridged

13 hours 25 min

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions
... Read more
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Cervantes o la crítica de la lectura

by Carlos Fuentes ...

Narrated by Noé Velázquez ...

Unabridged

3 hours 21 min

«Don Quijote, el loco, está loco no sólo porque ha creído lo que ha leído. También está loco porque cree, como caballero andante, que la justicia es su deber y que la justicia es posible.»Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla.... ... Read more

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«Don Quijote, el loco, está loco no sólo porque ha creído lo que ha leído. También está loco porque cree, como caballero andante, que la justicia es su deber y que la justicia es posible.»Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla....
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Metronome

Object Lessons

by Matthew H. Birkhold ...

Narrated by Chris Gaines ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 13 min

Bloomsbury presents Metronome by Matthew H. Birkhold, read by Chris GainesObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musicians now had a tool that could help them maintain a precise and consistent tempo. And while giants of classical music like Beethoven early embraced ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Metronome by Matthew H. Birkhold, read by Chris GainesObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musicians now had a tool that could help them maintain a precise and consistent tempo. And while giants of classical music like Beethoven early embraced
... Read more
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Blackface

Object Lessons

by Professor Ayanna Thompson ...

Narrated by Rachel Handshaw ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

Bloomsbury presents Blackface by Ayanna Thompson, read by Rachel Handshaw.A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of p... ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Blackface by Ayanna Thompson, read by Rachel Handshaw.A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of p...
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GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History

by Amit Varma ...

Narrated by Amit Varma ...

Series Audiobook 11 - The Book Club with Amit Varma
Unabridged

7 min

The GDP is today more a political tool than a statistical one. In episode 11 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends 'GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History" by Diane Coyle, a perfect primer on the origin and drawbacks of this controversial measure. ... Read more

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The GDP is today more a political tool than a statistical one. In episode 11 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends 'GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History" by Diane Coyle, a perfect primer on the origin and drawbacks of this controversial measure.
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Contra el fascismo

by Umberto Eco ...

Narrated by Eugenio Barona ...

Unabridged

43 min

Las catorce claves de Umberto Eco para reconocer el fascismo: un manifiesto urgente.«Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y certera lucidez.»Irene Vallejo«Uno de los pensadores más ... Read more

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Las catorce claves de Umberto Eco para reconocer el fascismo: un manifiesto urgente.«Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y certera lucidez.»Irene Vallejo«Uno de los pensadores más
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On the Inconvenience of Other People

by Lauren Berlant ...

Narrated by April Doty ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

In On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

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In On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine,
... Read more
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The Art of Writing and Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

Literary Craft, Style, and Creative Thought

by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Unabridged

2 hours 6 min

In this collection of reflective essays, Robert Louis Stevenson shares insights on writing, imagination, and the artist’s mind. This audiobook offers timeless guidance on literary style, creativity, and the discipline of authorship, appealing to writers and lovers of classic literary essays. ... Read more

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In this collection of reflective essays, Robert Louis Stevenson shares insights on writing, imagination, and the artist’s mind. This audiobook offers timeless guidance on literary style, creativity, and the discipline of authorship, appealing to writers and lovers of classic literary essays.
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Coffee

Object Lessons

by Dinah Lenney ...

Narrated by Lisa Rost-Welling ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 26 min

Bloomsbury presents…Coffeeby Dinah Lenneyread by Lisa Rost-WellingObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents…Coffeeby Dinah Lenneyread by Lisa Rost-WellingObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we
... Read more
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Immediacy

Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

by Anna Kornbluh ...

Narrated by Sara Sheckells ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that ... Read more

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Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that
... Read more
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Cat

Object Lessons

by Dr. Rebecca van Laer ...

Narrated by Skipper Mari ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 6 min

Bloomsbury presents Cat by Rebecca van Laer read by Skipper MariObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and Gus. Their loved ones see this as a step toward an inevitable future—first comes the house, then a dog, then a child. But what if they are just cat people ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Cat by Rebecca van Laer read by Skipper MariObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and Gus. Their loved ones see this as a step toward an inevitable future—first comes the house, then a dog, then a child. But what if they are just cat people
... Read more
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Modern Genre Theory

An Introduction for Biblical Studies

by Andrew Judd ...

Narrated by Les Horovitz ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil ... Read more

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How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil
... Read more
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그 남자네 집 해설집

by 박완서 ...

Narrated by Moon Ji-Young ...

Series Audiobook 2 - 그 남자네 집
Unabridged

39 min

돈암동 후배네 집에 놀러갔던 '나'는 한국전쟁 막바지, 돈암동 안감천변에 살던 첫사랑 그 남자를 떠올린다. '나'는 미군부대를 다니며 가족의 생계를 책임지고 있었다. 그러다 먼 친척뻘로, 홍예문이 달린 널찍한 기와집에 사는 부유한 집안의 막내아들이자 상이군인이자 문학과 예술을 좋아하는 청년인 그를 만난다. '생존'만이 가치 있던 그 시절, 그 남자의 문학과 음악과 낭만, 그리고 사랑은 빛이 났고 그 자체로 사치스러웠다. 『그 남자네 집』은 박완서가 50여 년을 꼭꼭 여며두었던 첫사랑을 조심스레 펼쳐 보인 기록이다. 전쟁의 아픔, 자본주의 비판, 여성 운동의 허실을 집요하게 파헤치던 작가는, 마지막에는 결국 '사랑'을 택했다. 도저히 사랑할 수 없을 것 같은 시절에도 사랑은 있었고, 어두울수록 더 찬란히 ... Read more

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돈암동 후배네 집에 놀러갔던 '나'는 한국전쟁 막바지, 돈암동 안감천변에 살던 첫사랑 그 남자를 떠올린다. '나'는 미군부대를 다니며 가족의 생계를 책임지고 있었다. 그러다 먼 친척뻘로, 홍예문이 달린 널찍한 기와집에 사는 부유한 집안의 막내아들이자 상이군인이자 문학과 예술을 좋아하는 청년인 그를 만난다. '생존'만이 가치 있던 그 시절, 그 남자의 문학과 음악과 낭만, 그리고 사랑은 빛이 났고 그 자체로 사치스러웠다. 『그 남자네 집』은 박완서가 50여 년을 꼭꼭 여며두었던 첫사랑을 조심스레 펼쳐 보인 기록이다. 전쟁의 아픔, 자본주의 비판, 여성 운동의 허실을 집요하게 파헤치던 작가는, 마지막에는 결국 '사랑'을 택했다. 도저히 사랑할 수 없을 것 같은 시절에도 사랑은 있었고, 어두울수록 더 찬란히
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L'arte di raccontare

by Cesare De Marchi, Cesare De Marchi ...

Narrated by Enrico Ballardini ...

Unabridged

1 hour 52 min

Dopo la pubblicazione del saggio Romanzi. Leggerli, scriverli (2007), l'autore torna a riflettere sul genere letterario romanzo e raccoglie una serie di considerazioni condotte sul duplice versante della lettura e della scrittura. I romanzi, questi oggetti di «sostanza immaginaria», non sono che «un movimento di parole»: ogni testo è un movimento verbale, e il movimento specifico del testo ... Read more

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Dopo la pubblicazione del saggio Romanzi. Leggerli, scriverli (2007), l'autore torna a riflettere sul genere letterario romanzo e raccoglie una serie di considerazioni condotte sul duplice versante della lettura e della scrittura. I romanzi, questi oggetti di «sostanza immaginaria», non sono che «un movimento di parole»: ogni testo è un movimento verbale, e il movimento specifico del testo
... Read more
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Contemporary Fiction

A Very Short Introduction

by Robert Eaglestone ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed.In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and ... Read more

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Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed.In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and
... Read more
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Sleep Works

Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929

by Sebastian P. Klinger ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive state but as an active, dynamic process crucial to our understanding of consciousness and identity. In Sleep Works, cultural historian and literary scholar Sebastian P. Klinger explores the intriguing connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression during an era when sleep was both a scientific ... Read more

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At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive state but as an active, dynamic process crucial to our understanding of consciousness and identity. In Sleep Works, cultural historian and literary scholar Sebastian P. Klinger explores the intriguing connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression during an era when sleep was both a scientific
... Read more
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Hacking Darwin

by Amit Varma ...

Narrated by Amit Varma ...

Series Audiobook 8 - The Book Club with Amit Varma
Unabridged

10 min

Humans are the only species who can reprogram themselves. This is astounding. In episode 8 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends you read 'Hacking Darwin' by Jamie Metzl, a lucid summation of the technological implications of genetic science – and the ethical questions they raise. ... Read more

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Humans are the only species who can reprogram themselves. This is astounding. In episode 8 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends you read 'Hacking Darwin' by Jamie Metzl, a lucid summation of the technological implications of genetic science – and the ethical questions they raise.
... Read more
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High Heel

by Summer Brennan ...

Narrated by Allyson Ryan ...

Unabridged

4 hours 14 min

Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, ... Read more

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Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism,
... Read more
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Andar y ver

Tercer cuaderno

by Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez ...

Narrated by Daniel Cubillo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 39 min

«Hallazgos de la poesía, revelaciones arquitectónicas, mensajes del pincel o la batuta, sabiduría del bisturí.»Este libro es una colección de ejercicios de admiración, invitaciones a recorrer parajes de maravilla. Con una prosa precisa y transparente, Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez escribe acerca de obras y artistas que lo han tocado, que le han permitido hacer más ancho y habitable el mundo. Poesía, ... Read more

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«Hallazgos de la poesía, revelaciones arquitectónicas, mensajes del pincel o la batuta, sabiduría del bisturí.»Este libro es una colección de ejercicios de admiración, invitaciones a recorrer parajes de maravilla. Con una prosa precisa y transparente, Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez escribe acerca de obras y artistas que lo han tocado, que le han permitido hacer más ancho y habitable el mundo. Poesía,
... Read more
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The Interpretation Of Cultures

by Clifford Geertz ...

Narrated by Tim Dixon ...

Unabridged

21 hours 3 min

One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isWith The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he virtually rewrote the rules of his field. Culture, Geertz argues, does not drive human behavior. Rather, it ... Read more

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One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isWith The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he virtually rewrote the rules of his field. Culture, Geertz argues, does not drive human behavior. Rather, it
... Read more
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Laboratory

by Dr. or Prof. Emily York ...

Narrated by Lisa Rost-Welling ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

4 hours 3 min

Bloomsbury presents Laboratory by Emily York, read by Lisa Rost-Welling.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The laboratory stands as a powerful symbol in the public imagination: it is place for bodily dissections and monstrous creations, technological innovation and corporate secrecy, governments working in the public interest ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents Laboratory by Emily York, read by Lisa Rost-Welling.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The laboratory stands as a powerful symbol in the public imagination: it is place for bodily dissections and monstrous creations, technological innovation and corporate secrecy, governments working in the public interest
... Read more
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Limits of Critique, The

by Rita Felski ...

Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic’s task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates it as but one method among many, a method with strong allure—but also definite limits.Felski argues ... Read more

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Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic’s task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates it as but one method among many, a method with strong allure—but also definite limits.Felski argues
... Read more

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