The Practices of Hope – Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times Castiglia

The Practices of Hope\nby Christopher Castiglia\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christopher Castiglia\nTitle: The Practices of Hope\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: New York University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781479803552\nISBN-10: 1479803553\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOffers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when the hermeneutics of suspicion is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying to art.