ENLI11255, postgraduate course, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, Semester 1, 2024/25
The seminar opens by asking what academic reading is for. It then sets out the case against critique as the default model of humanities scholarship, with Rita Felski's The Limits of Critique read alongside Sedgwick, Rosenblatt and Latour, and uses Lakoff and Johnson's work on conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition to examine the metaphors critique relies on. The second half turns to practice. Students look at existing responsive works, from Jack Spicer's After Lorca to cross-media pieces involving Tarkovsky, Rachmaninoff and Kandinsky, and then make one of their own: a postcritical composition in response to a text of their choice, as writing or as audio-visual work, with a 2,500-word rationale placing it in relation to the theory.
The course was last offered in 2024/25; the university lists it as not being delivered in 2025/26 and 2026/27.
