{"product_id":"the-practices-of-hope-christopher-castiglia-9781479818273","title":"The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a positive approach to literary criticism \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a moment when the \"hermeneutics of suspicion\" is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying to articulate the values that shape our scholarship and creates the possible worlds that animate genuine social critique. Drawing on a variety of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from Granville Hicks and Constance Rourke to Lewis Mumford, C.L.R. James, Charles Feidelson, and Richard Poirier, Castiglia demonstrates that their criticism simultaneously denounced the social conditions of the Cold War United States and proposed ideal worlds as more democratic alternatives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized around a series of terms that have become anathema to critics--nation, liberalism, humanism, symbolism--The Practices of Hope shows how they were employed in criticism's \"usable past\" to generate an alternative critique, a practice of hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Castiglia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479818275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479818273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018","brand":"Christopher Castiglia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088366874879,"sku":"9781479818273","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77559387-f136-40d5-a2be-d6e7354f7917.jpg?v=1769104440","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-practices-of-hope-christopher-castiglia-9781479818273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}