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”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism

Dahlberg, Sara LU (2022) LIVR41 20221
Master's Programme: Literature - Culture - Media
Abstract
In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. Part of a critical category, to borrow Stephen Benson’s and Clare Connor’s term, called “Creative Criticism”, and partly beholden to the radical roots of feminist literary criticism, these three texts exemplify a turn to affect. Hybrid texts, these works play with genre and voice to reimagine, revitalise, and even liberate literary criticism from... (More)
In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. Part of a critical category, to borrow Stephen Benson’s and Clare Connor’s term, called “Creative Criticism”, and partly beholden to the radical roots of feminist literary criticism, these three texts exemplify a turn to affect. Hybrid texts, these works play with genre and voice to reimagine, revitalise, and even liberate literary criticism from the disinterested mood that dictates much of contemporary critical rhetoric. At a time when the function and purpose of literary criticism is yet again being questioned, these texts ask not “What about Power?” but, rather, “What about Love?”. (Less)
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author
Dahlberg, Sara LU
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organization
course
LIVR41 20221
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Literary criticism, Creative Criticism, Affect, Rita Felski, Anne Carson, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Vivian Gornick, The hermeneutics of suspicion, Paranoid Reading, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
language
English
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9095210
date added to LUP
2022-09-27 13:02:32
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2022-09-27 13:02:32
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  abstract     = {{In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. Part of a critical category, to borrow Stephen Benson’s and Clare Connor’s term, called “Creative Criticism”, and partly beholden to the radical roots of feminist literary criticism, these three texts exemplify a turn to affect. Hybrid texts, these works play with genre and voice to reimagine, revitalise, and even liberate literary criticism from the disinterested mood that dictates much of contemporary critical rhetoric. At a time when the function and purpose of literary criticism is yet again being questioned, these texts ask not “What about Power?” but, rather, “What about Love?”.}},
  author       = {{Dahlberg, Sara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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