Expanding upon the centralĪrgument of her previous works, the author hones in on the increasing epistemicįragility of literary studies as directly correlative to the deepening (9), embracing weakness as its resilient core. That it can, but only if radically reimagined as a “crisis-responsive art form” Life’ taking its place among other endangered life-forms” (4). Which humankind becomes “a newly constituted endangered species a ‘form of

Sovereign domain – the home of masterly authors, hegemonic institutions, andĭominant ideologies” (4) can withstand the perilous era of the Anthropocene, in “an attempt to write literary history as part of the collective run-up to ourĬlimate crisis” (1), the volume interrogates whether literature conceived “as a Literature and Assisted Survival emerges at theĬonvergence of such older theoretical explorations and a newly articulatedĮthical urgency, engendered by increased ecological devastation. Literary genre, as well as her commitment to “weak theory” and its disciplinaryĢ020 Weak Planet. Her empirical, rather than prescriptive engagement of Her attention towards the fuzzier, critically equivocal, instruments of Has explored alternatives to historicism and symptomatic reading by directing Wai Chee Dimock’sĭistinctive theoretical practice epitomizes both across her recent work, she Reassessments of literary historiography and its instruments. Post-critique (Rita Felski) and multidirectional methodological innovation.Īugmented by the increasing institutional vulnerability of the humanities, theĭisciplinary crisis of literary studies has engendered multiple reactions –įrom proposals of hybridization with adjacent disciplines to radical Symptomatic 2003 Death of a Discipline, the field seemingly submitted toĪn increasingly self-reflexive stance, articulated at the intersection of Perusing the cardinal debates of its past decades.

Witness to its own disciplinary dissolution is difficult to argue against when

Ana Țăranuįor formatted text, please download as pdf (upper right).Ĭomparative literature has invested substantial theoretical energy in bearing Literature and Assisted Survival, University of Chicago Press, 2020, ISBN 978-0-7, 228 p.

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