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1. 1. ”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Sara Dahlberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Literary criticism; Creative Criticism; Affect; Rita Felski; Anne Carson; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Vivian Gornick; The hermeneutics of suspicion; Paranoid Reading; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. READ MORE

3. 2. The Devil Led Us to the Wrong Crib : Paranoid and Reparative Reading in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Berfin Sekerci; [2020]
   Keywords : Attachment theory; Jeanette Winterson; Melanie Klein; mother-daughter relationship;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes the issues of attachment between Jeanette Winterson and her adoptive mother in the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. My argument is that the memoir demonstrates a movement from what Sedgwick calls the paranoid position of reading to the reparative position. READ MORE