Foremost among the methods promoted in the new critical modesty is “description” – a form of attention to textual surface billed as an alternative to interpretation, with its putative depth tendencies. 
What is the description of a literary text? Where does critical description meet literary description? In what is a literary text engaged, and what does it forswear, when it describes?
InterCcECT highlights the V21 Collective‘s pre- symposium reading group on Description & the Postcritical Turn.
Readings include passages of description from Dickens, Hardy, and Wilde, along with essays on description in literature and description as method by Lukacs, Latour, and Love. The session is Monday 21 September, 3-5pm, DePaul Library Rosati Room (Room 300, 2350 N Kenmore, Redline: Fullerton). Contact v21collective at gmail for the readings.
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