The Practices of Hope - 9781479818273

The Practices of HopeLiterary Criticism in Disenchanted Times\nAuthor(s): Christopher Castiglia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479818273, 978-1479818273\nSynopsis\nOffers a positive approach to literary criticism \n 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 articulate the values that shape our scholarship and creates the possible worlds that animate genuine social critique. Drawing on a variety of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from Granville Hicks and Constance Rourke to Lewis Mumford, [url] James, Charles Feidelson, and Ri.