... Rooney argues that symptomatic reading distinguishes itself from the broader traditions of philosophical critique and ideology critique through its emphases on the productivity of reading, the shifting problematics every reader confronts in the form of the other reader, and the “surprise...

... symptomatic reading surface reading new formalism reparative reading Louis Althusser ...

... Slavoj Žižek fetishism fetishistic reading symptomatic reading ideology critique ...

... proposed interpretive paradigms such as “surface reading,” “ordinary language criticism,” and “postcritique” are correct in pointing out that the symptomatic reading practices associated with the hermeneutics of suspicion have brought literary criticism to a deadening impasse, Sbriglia nonetheless...

... In literary criticism, proponents of critique assume that texts have hidden meanings that must be uncovered by the critic. This has given rise to the idea that “suspicious” or “symptomatic” reading is a specific method of “deep” reading, as opposed to “surface” reading. Drawing on Wittgenstein...

... of the novel itself. For these writers, what is most valued is the possibility of affirming the potential of both realism and romance, without simply mistaking the one for the other. Ian McEwan Bruno Latour realism critique humanities Rooney argues that symptomatic reading distinguishes itself...

...Countertraditions of Critique In literary criticism, proponents of critique assume that texts have hidden meanings that must be uncovered by the critic. This has given rise to the idea that “suspicious” or “symptomatic” reading is a specific method of “deep” reading, as opposed to “surface...

.... Conceding that advocates and practitioners of recently proposed interpretive paradigms such as “surface reading,” “ordinary language criticism,” and “postcritique” are correct in pointing out that the symptomatic reading practices associated with the hermeneutics of suspicion have brought literary criticism...

... This chapter starts by presenting a symptomatic cartography of the criticisms Žižek’s last book on Hegel provoked that leads to a longer discussion of one of the most serious critiques of this book yet published, namely that one by Robert Pippin. In a detailed discussion of this critique...

... The apotheosis of superficial, deceptively clear, yet ideologically complicit language, the cliché is the ultimate “usual suspect” of symptomatic or suspicious reading. This essay recounts the trials of cliché in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a prehistory to the Marxist...

... thereof). German idealism Kant Hegel freedom transcendental materialism This chapter starts by presenting a symptomatic cartography of the criticisms Žižek’s last book on Hegel provoked that leads to a longer discussion of one of the most serious critiques of this book yet published...