December 19, 2008

Remember the Reader

By RITA FELSKI

A manifesto

Literary studies is in the doldrums. Wave after wave of revisionism has washed over literature departments in the last few decades, bringing a mind-spinning miscellany of new methods and critical tools, from cultural materialism to critical race theory, deconstruction to disability studies, the new historicism to the new formalism. And yet, even as our ways of reading have become more searching and sophisticated, the stories we tell ourselves and others about what we do and

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