Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction that illuminates the field of theory through a variety of useful and relevant examples. Covering all key theories and theorists, this book looks at the relation of theory to form, discourses, subjectivity, and media
Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction that illuminates the field of theory through a variety of useful and relevant examples. Covering all key theories and theorists, this book looks at the relation of theory to form, discourses, subjectivity, and media
Evan Gottlieb is Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA.
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Introduction Structure of the book and some caveats References 1. Forms Matters of form in the twentieth century Terry Eagleton: the Marxist critic as public intellectual Fredric Jameson: committing to form and history Franco Moretti: maps, graphs, and distant reading Engaging with classic literature: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Engaging with contemporary literature: Ian McEwan's Atonement Engaging with film and new media: Austen on the big screen References 2. Discourses Matters of discourse in modernity Jean Baudrillard: prophet of the postmodern Giorgio Agamben: a genealogy of biopolitics Rey Chow: entangling ethnicity, visuality, and language Engaging with classic literature: Emily Bront¿'s Wuthering Heights Engaging with contemporary literature: Hari Kunzru's White Tears Engaging with film and new media: Easy References 3. Subjectivities and embodiments The birth of the subject Slavoj iek: theorizing with psychoanalysis and Marxism Judith Butler: beyond gender performativity Catherine Malabou: philosophy, plasticity, neuroscience Engaging with classic literature: Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Engaging with contemporary literature: Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch Engaging with film and new media: The Fall References 4. Media, networks, machines Toward our contemporary media moment Jacques Rancière: aesthetics for everyone Bruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyond N. Katherine Hayles: defining the posthuman Engaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker's Dracula Engaging with contemporary literature: Gwyneth Jones's Proof of Concept Engaging with film and new media: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther References 5. Animals, affects, objects, environments We have never been human Donna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, Chthulucene Sara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoys Timothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontology Engaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Engaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation Engaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird References
Introduction Structure of the book and some caveats References 1. Forms Matters of form in the twentieth century Terry Eagleton: the Marxist critic as public intellectual Fredric Jameson: committing to form and history Franco Moretti: maps, graphs, and distant reading Engaging with classic literature: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Engaging with contemporary literature: Ian McEwan's Atonement Engaging with film and new media: Austen on the big screen References 2. Discourses Matters of discourse in modernity Jean Baudrillard: prophet of the postmodern Giorgio Agamben: a genealogy of biopolitics Rey Chow: entangling ethnicity, visuality, and language Engaging with classic literature: Emily Bront¿'s Wuthering Heights Engaging with contemporary literature: Hari Kunzru's White Tears Engaging with film and new media: Easy References 3. Subjectivities and embodiments The birth of the subject Slavoj iek: theorizing with psychoanalysis and Marxism Judith Butler: beyond gender performativity Catherine Malabou: philosophy, plasticity, neuroscience Engaging with classic literature: Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Engaging with contemporary literature: Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch Engaging with film and new media: The Fall References 4. Media, networks, machines Toward our contemporary media moment Jacques Rancière: aesthetics for everyone Bruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyond N. Katherine Hayles: defining the posthuman Engaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker's Dracula Engaging with contemporary literature: Gwyneth Jones's Proof of Concept Engaging with film and new media: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther References 5. Animals, affects, objects, environments We have never been human Donna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, Chthulucene Sara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoys Timothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontology Engaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Engaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation Engaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird References
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