Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History

Since the global turn to neoliberalism in the 1970s, movements in literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist: scholars have developed techniques for analyzing culture but have retreated from attempts to transform it. For Joseph North, a genuinely interventionist criticism is a central task facing scholars on the Left today.

• | By (Author): Joseph North
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: May 25, 2017
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674967739
• | ISBN-13: 9780674967731