Between Suspicion and Love. Reality, Postcritique, and Euro-American Modernization (An Introduction to the Debate) Cover Image

Between Suspicion and Love. Reality, Postcritique, and Euro-American Modernization (An Introduction to the Debate)
Between Suspicion and Love. Reality, Postcritique, and Euro-American Modernization (An Introduction to the Debate)

Author(s): Mena Mitrano
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: critique and postcritique; Italian Theory; modernism; modernity; European-American relations;

Summary/Abstract: The essay introduces major tenets in the current debate on postcritique, focusing especially on the widespread rejection of symptomatic reading in literary studies and on the rejection of rupture as both a modernist and theoretical model for the conception of the new. Further, it presents theory as a phase of Euro-American modernization. Finally, it outlines a wider, more dynamic concept of critique, understood as a movement of intellectual—and geographical—displacements.

  • Issue Year: 13/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 185-208
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English