...Aaron Colton Abstract Recent advocates of postcritique urge scholars not to read texts suspiciously but instead to regard texts as capable of saying what they mean and, accordingly, to take those meanings seriously. While a suspicious disposition underlies much of introductory composition pedagogy...

... pedagogic affects. Finally, while scholarship on the affective displacements of critique is well underway, some of the essays here help bridge the divide between critique and postcritique by locating the compatibility of affect and critical reading in our pedagogy. Across these varied approaches...

... recently gripped the discipline of literary studies more widely in the form of a debate about the merits of postcritique. Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski ( 2017b : 20) characterize postcritique as a “broad interest in exploring new models and practices of reading that are less beholden to suspicion...

... the Students Are Beginning. Pedagogy 17, no. 3: 563 69. Hayot, Eric. 2017. Then and Now. In Critique and Postcritique, edited by Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski, 279 96. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Kahneman, Daniel. 2011. Thinking Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Kahneman...

... conflict bound up in the ongoing crisis in the humanities. In their collection of essays, Critique and Postcritique , editors Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski ( 2017 : 19) write, At a time when higher education is under siege, it seems urgent to articulate more compelling accounts of why...

... theoretical approaches included surface and distant reading, new sociological approaches, and theorizations of our postcritique possibilities. To this we might add cosmopolitan and phenomenologically oriented approaches that recognize the otherness of literary texts and their capacity to change readers. All...