Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory

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Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory is written by Mena Mitrano and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399513257 (ISBN 10) and 9781399513258 (ISBN 13).

Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This 'living thought' cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. Mena Mitrano demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is a stance towards others including indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder.