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The practices of hope : literary criticism in disenchanted times /

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 combinati...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Castiglia, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.