The Ways We Pay Attention

Abstract: This essay brings the intellectual history of curiosity into current debates about critique and postcritique. I argue that these methodological debates founder on issues of attention, and can productively be understood via persistent features in the ways we as critics, scholars, students, and readers pay attention, taking curiosity as an apt concept to discuss such features.

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Journal
New Literary History
Published
2025-01-01
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2025.a966361
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1
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Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
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The Ways We Pay Attention

Patricia Clare Ingham
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New Literary History
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
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The Ways We Pay Attention

Patricia Clare Ingham
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Abstract

Abstract: This essay brings the intellectual history of curiosity into current debates about critique and postcritique. I argue that these methodological debates founder on issues of attention, and can productively be understood via persistent features in the ways we as critics, scholars, students, and readers pay attention, taking curiosity as an apt concept to discuss such features.

New Literary HistoryVol. 56(1)
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Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
17.27
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