Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative
Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk
The etymological affinity between 'criticism' and 'crisis' has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises. But what is the role of literary and cultural criticism in conceptualizing this atmosphere of perpetual crisis? If, as Paul de Man maintained, criticism necessarily exists in a state of crisis, in what ways is this condition intensified at a time when the social formations within which criticism operates and the cultural artefa…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-82642-9
- EAN: 9781136826429
- Produktnummer: 18434681
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'420 KB
- Abbildungen: 13 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 13 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Paul Crossthwaite is Lecturer in English Literature and Member of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University.
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