This response to the current crisis in the field of literary studies describes the fundamental flaws of poststructuralist literary criticism, which has become a self-serving enterprise at the expense of scholarship at large and students in particular. Outlining an improved approach that meets the expectations of 21st-century students and teachers, the author proposes a new definition of the literary object of study which addresses the inconsistencies of the literary canon by including nontraditional narratives such as films, comic books and pop songs.
This response to the current crisis in the field of literary studies describes the fundamental flaws of poststructuralist literary criticism, which has become a self-serving enterprise at the expense of scholarship at large and students in particular. Outlining an improved approach that meets the expectations of 21st-century students and teachers, the author proposes a new definition of the literary object of study which addresses the inconsistencies of the literary canon by including nontraditional narratives such as films, comic books and pop songs.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Ferreras Savoye is a professor of French and Spanish literary and cultural studies at West Virginia University. His work on marginalized authors, comic books, detective fiction, popular culture issues and critical theory has appeared in Hispania, French Literature Series, Angulo Recto, The Popular Culture Review and La tribuna.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Introduction: The Great Academic Publishing Bubble 6 Part I: The Emperor's New Rhetoric 1. Theorize or Agonize 12 2. Adventures in Criticism 17 3. A Question of Authority 21 4. Burn After Reading 30 5. Pardon My French 34 6. Grand Theft Theory 41 7. The Theme Behind the Method 47 8. Narcissistic Studies 51 9. Academic Starmaniä59 10. A Fish Called Stanley 66 11. The Depth of Superficiality 69 12. Escape from the Text 76 13. Exploded Theory 80 Part II: Relative Synthesis 14. Deconceptivist Mode 90 15. Definitions of Literature 91 16. The Imaginary Multiverse 106 17. Parallel Dimensions Studies 122 18. A Theory of Theories 135 19. Welcome to Imaginology 184 20. Genres and Modes 216 21. Elegance in Theory 252 22. Semiosphere to Semiosphere 255 Conclusion: The Triumph of Imaginology 259 Chapter Notes 267 Works Cited 283 Index 291
Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Introduction: The Great Academic Publishing Bubble 6 Part I: The Emperor's New Rhetoric 1. Theorize or Agonize 12 2. Adventures in Criticism 17 3. A Question of Authority 21 4. Burn After Reading 30 5. Pardon My French 34 6. Grand Theft Theory 41 7. The Theme Behind the Method 47 8. Narcissistic Studies 51 9. Academic Starmaniä59 10. A Fish Called Stanley 66 11. The Depth of Superficiality 69 12. Escape from the Text 76 13. Exploded Theory 80 Part II: Relative Synthesis 14. Deconceptivist Mode 90 15. Definitions of Literature 91 16. The Imaginary Multiverse 106 17. Parallel Dimensions Studies 122 18. A Theory of Theories 135 19. Welcome to Imaginology 184 20. Genres and Modes 216 21. Elegance in Theory 252 22. Semiosphere to Semiosphere 255 Conclusion: The Triumph of Imaginology 259 Chapter Notes 267 Works Cited 283 Index 291
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