Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Name: Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
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ISBN: 9780195079654

ISBN-10: 0195079655

ISBN-13: 9780195079654

Edition: 1993

Authors: Tobin Siebers

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In Cold War Criticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to threedominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadership (Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Hitler) lies behind the preoccupation with "intention", "effect" and "impersonality" found in the New Criticism. The age…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/29/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Introduction: The Politics of Skepticism



Cold War Criticism



Ethics or Politics? Comparative Literature, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Literacy



Mourning Becomes Paul de Man



The Politics of the Politics of Interpretation



The Politics of Storytelling: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem



Conclusion: Toward a Post-Cold War Criticism


Index