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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century</i> is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods--including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others--and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts. </p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century</i> is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods--including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others--and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Anirudh Sridhar</b> received a DPhil in English, on the topic of mathematics and poetry, from the University of Oxford, UK.<b> </b></p> <p><b>Mir Ali Hosseini</b> is a PhD candidate in British and North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.</p> <b>Derek Attridge</b> is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at the University of York, UK, and is the author of books on literary theory, poetry and poetics, and Irish and South African literature. He has taught in the UK, the USA, France, and Italy, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Professorship.<br>

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