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100 1 a| Castiglia, Christophere| author.=| ^A373409;

245 14 a| The practices of hope :b| literary criticism in disenchanted times /c| Christopher Castiglia.;

264 1 a| New York :b| New York University Press,c| [2017];

300 a| xi, 223 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: practices of hope and tales of disenchantment -- Nation: I like America -- Liberalism: Richard Chase's liberal allegories -- Humanism: the cant of pessimism and Newton Arvin's queer humanism -- Symbolism: the queerness of symbols.;

520 a| At a moment when the "hermeneutics of suspicion" is under fire in literacy studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. Catiglia instead offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beond nay-saying to articulate the values that shape our scholarship and create the possible worlds that animate genuine social criticism. 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 many critics - "nation," "liberalism," "humanism," "symbolism" - The Practices of Hope shows how they were employed in criticism's "usable past" to generate alternative critiques: practices of hope. -- from back cover.;

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The practices of hope : literary criticism in disenchanted times / Christopher Castiglia.

Author/creator	Castiglia, Christopher author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Description	xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Criticism.

Contents	Introduction: practices of hope and tales of disenchantment -- Nation: I like America -- Liberalism: Richard Chase's liberal allegories -- Humanism: the cant of pessimism and Newton Arvin's queer humanism -- Symbolism: the queerness of symbols.
Abstract	At a moment when the "hermeneutics of suspicion" is under fire in literacy studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. Catiglia instead offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beond nay-saying to articulate the values that shape our scholarship and create the possible worlds that animate genuine social criticism. 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 many critics - "nation," "liberalism," "humanism," "symbolism" - The Practices of Hope shows how they were employed in criticism's "usable past" to generate alternative critiques: practices of hope. -- from back cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2017008042
ISBN	9781479818273 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN	1479818275 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN	9781479803552 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN	1479803553 paperback alkaline paper
Standard identifier#	40027526110

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