The Work of Reading
by
Anirudh Sridhar (Editor); Mir Ali Hosseini (Editor); Derek Attridge (Editor)
ISBN: 3030711382
Publication Date: 2021
The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the methods, including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism and postcritique, and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies.