The Misdiagnosis of Critique.
Eve Sedgwick's diagnosis of "theory" as "paranoid" has been utilized to authorize a range of critical interventions, including the most recent call by Rita Felski for a new era of "postcritique" (2015). The status of Sedgwick's essay in shaping contemporary discourse—"arguably the origin of the read...
| Publicado en: | Criticism Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 191 - 218 |
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