The Critical Situation

Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies

Robert T. Tally Jr

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781839988349
• Edition: 0

The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies comprises a selection of essays that register the situatedness of critical theory and practice amid various intellectual, institutional, and cultural contexts. This book offers examples of situated criticism, which in turn are concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spatial literary studies, cultural critique, globalization and postmodernity. These structures influence the ways that criticism is practiced, and due recognition of their continuing effects is crucial to the success of any meaningful critical practice in the twenty-first century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: The Situation of Criticism
• Part I Critical Positioning Systems
• Part II Post-Americanist Interpolations
• Part III Errant Trajectories in Postmodern Critical Practice
• Conclusion: An Anagogical Education
• Acknowledgments
• Index