Critique

2024/11/14 by Gabriel Hankins · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

paper · doi:10.1017/9781009349567.017

openalex publication_date 2024/11/14 · openalex created_date 2024/11/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13

Abstract

This chapter examines the relationship between “critique” as a mode of literary work and digital literary studies. It provides a brief genealogy of the origins of critique in early modern textual criticism and eighteenth-century disputes over autonomous criticism, and connects that genealogy to contemporary schools of critique. The debates over critique in digital literary studies are surveyed, along with a range of work in feminist, postcolonial, intersectional, Marxist, and other forms of cultural critique. It analyzes the recent turn to work in “postcritique” and allied theoretical modes, and indicates areas of shared interest as well as boundaries between digital literary studies and the cultures of critique.

Citations

• Venus in Two Acts

Discussions

• An account of "Critique" and the method wars here, very Cambridge historicist but hopefully somewhat clarifying -- [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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