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03262aam a2200421 i 4500 001 3BF02B6A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 161011t20172017mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016046677 020 $a 0674967739 020 $a 9780674967731 035 $a (OCoLC)959649912 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ERASA $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN94 $b .N67 2017 082 00 $a 801/.950904 $2 23 100 1 $a North, Joseph, $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Literary criticism : $b a concise political history / $c Joseph North. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xi, 253 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the intellectual paradigms that underpinned them. The result is a radically new account of the discipline's development, together with a trenchant argument about where its political future lies. People in today's literature departments often assume that their work is politically progressive, especially when compared with the work of early- and mid-twentieth-century critics. North's view is less cheering. For when understood in relation to the longer arc of the discipline, the current historicist and contextualist mode in literary studies represents a step to the Right. Since the global turn to neoliberalism in the late 1970s, all the major movements within literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist in character: scholars have developed sophisticated techniques for analyzing culture, but they have retreated from systematic attempts to transform it. In this respect, the political potential of current literary scholarship compares poorly with that of earlier critical modes, which, for all their faults, at least had a programmatic commitment to cultural change. Yet neoliberalism is now in crisis--a crisis that presents opportunities as well as dangers. North argues that the creation of a genuinely interventionist criticism is one of the central tasks facing those on the Left of the discipline today.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The critical revolution turns right -- The scholarly turn -- The historicist/contextualist paradigm -- The critical unconscious -- Conclusion: The future of criticism. 650 0 $a Criticism $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Criticism $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Criticism $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Neoliberalism. 650 7 $a Criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883735 650 7 $a Criticism $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883746 650 7 $a Neoliberalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01737382 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702015253.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126063019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3BF02B6A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search