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- Title
Introduction.
- Authors
Castronovo, Russ; Hutner, Gordon
- Abstract
The introduction to this special issue provides the occasion and discusses the exigency of examining the political, aesthetic, historical, and pedagogical functions of literary criticism at this moment in the twenty-first century. By considering others who have taken up similar inquiries, notably Matthew Arnold, Edward Said, and Northrop Frye, this introduction takes stock of the current state of criticism and makes some projections about its future. It discerns that critical practice is often a function of mood. To that end, it identifies how four moods—urgency, buoyancy, hopelessness, and scholasticism—hover over the functions of criticism at the present time.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; HISTORIOGRAPHY of criticism
- Publication
American Literary History, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/alh/ajab073