Global Literary Theory

An Anthology
Herausgeber: Lane, Richard J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Global Literary Theory: An Anthology comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts, providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory. The volume is thoroughly introduced in the General Introduction and Section Introductions and each piece is contextualised within the wider sphere of global theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 978
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1774g
• ISBN-13: 9780415783026
• ISBN-10: 041578302X
• Artikelnr.: 36560262

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Lane is a professor of English at Vancouver Island University, Canada, where he is the Director of The Literary Theory Research Group and the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He has written several books and articles on literary theory and has experience of teaching and presenting on literary theory at universities across the US, Canada and the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1 - Formalism
Structuralism a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 1.1 Shklovsky
Viktor
"Art as Technique" from Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays. 1.2 Propp
Vladimir
"Morphology of the Folk-Tale"
from Morphology of the Folk-Tale. 1.3 Da Silva
Francisco Vaz
"Red as Blood
White as Snow
Black as Crow: Chromatic Symbolism of Womanhood in Fairy Tales"
from Marvels & Tales
21.2. 1.4 Saussure
F.de.
"Nature of the Linguistic Sign"
from Course in General Linguistics. 1.5 Jakobson
Roman
"Two Aspects of Language"
from On Language. 1.6 Barthes
Roman
"Myth Today"
from Mythologies. 1.7 Kristeva
Julia
"The Semiotic Activity
" Screen 14.1-2. Section 2 - Deconstruction & Poststructuralism a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 2.1 Ahluwalia
Pal
"Derrida"
from Out Of Africa: Poststructuralism's Colonial Roots. 2.2 Derrida
Jacques
"Structure
Sign
and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences"
from Writing and Difference. 2.3 Poovey
Mary
"Feminism and Deconstruction"
from Feminist Studies
14.1. 2.4 Tilottama
Rajan
"Introduction"
from Deconstruction & the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre
Derrida
Foucault
Baudrillard. 2.5 Nuyen
A.T.
"Levinas and Laozi on the Deconstruction of Ethics"
from Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought. 2.6 Kristeva
Julia
"Genotext and Phenotext"
from Revolution in Poetic Language. Section 3 - Media
Culture & Postmodernism a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 3.1 Benjamin
Walter
"The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility
Second Version"
from Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings
Volume 3
1935-1938. 3.2 McLuhan
Marshall
" 'Time' has ceased
'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village..."
from The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. 3.3 Rose
Tricia
"Voices from the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production"
from Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. 3.4 Said
Edward
"Islam as News"
from Covering Islam. 3.5 Sundaram
Ravi
"Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India"
from Third Text
13.47. 3.6 Lyotard
Jean-François
"What is Postmodernism?"
from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. 3.7 Vizenor
Gerald
"Introduction"
from Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures. 3.8 Baudrillard
Jean
"The Precession of Simulacra"
from Simulacra and Simulation. 3.9 Sardar
Ziauddin
"Surviving Postmodernism"
from Postmodernism and the Other: The New Imperialism of Western Culture. Section 4 - Psychoanalysis & Its Critics a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 4.1 Freud
Sigmund
"The Dream Work"
from Introductory Lectures on Pyschoanalysis. 4.2 Freud
Sigmund
"The Uncanny"
from Art and Literature. 4.3 Lacan
Jacques
"The Mirror Stage"
from Écrits: A Selection. 4.4 Felman
Shoshana
"Jacques Lacan"
from Writing and Madness (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis). 4.5 Butler
Judith
"Passing
Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge"
from Female Subjects in Black and White: Race
Psychoanalysis
Feminism. 4.6 Deleuze
Gilles & Félix Guattari
"The Machines"
from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 4.7 iek
Slavoj
"Hegel 1: Taking Deleuze from Behind"
from Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. Section 5 - Marxism
Critical Theory & New Historicism a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 5.1 Marx
Karl
"The Commodity"
from Capital
Volume 1. 5.2 Adorno
Theodor & Max Horkheimer
"The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
from Dialectic of Enlightenment . 5.3 Jameson
Fredric
"Mass Culture as Big Business"
from Late Marxism: Adorno
or
The Persistence of The Absolute. 5.4 Vice
Sue
"Carnival and the Grotesque Body"
from Introducing Bakhtin. 5.5 Benjamin
Walter
"On The Theory of Knowledge
Theory of Progress"
from The Arcades Project. 5.6 Gallagher
Catherine & Stephen Greenblatt
"The Potato in the Materialist Imagination"
from Practicing New Historicism. 5.7 Berg
Daria
"What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture"
from Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory. Section 6 - Race & Ethnicity a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 6.1 Fanon
Frantz
"The Fact of Blackness"
from Black Skin
White Masks. 6.2 Gates
Henry Louis Jr.
"The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifying"
from The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. 6.3 Gilroy
Paul. "'Not a Story to Pass On': Living Memory and the Slave Sublime"
from The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. 6.4 Clarke
George Elliott
"The Complex Face of Black Canada"
from Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. 6.5 Byrne
Dara N.
"The Future of (the) 'Race': Identity
Discourse
and the Rise of Computer-Mediated Public Spheres"
from Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media. 6.6 Karl
Rebecca E.
"Race
Colonialism and History: China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
from Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity. 6.7 Scully
Pamela
"Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective"
from Women's History in Global Perspective (vol. 1). Section 7 - Postcolonial Studies a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 7.1 Bhadra
Gautam
"The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma"
from A Subaltern Studies Reader
1986-1995. 7.2 Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" (revised version)
from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. 7.3 Said
Edward
"Orientalism Now"
from Orientalism. 7.4 Bhabha
Homi K.
"Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse"
from The Location of Culture. 7.5 Achebe
Chinua
"The African Writer and the English Language"
from Morning Yet on Creation Day . 7.6 Wisker
Gina
"Locating and Celebrating Difference: Writing by South African and Aboriginal Women Writers"
from Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon. 7.7 King
Thomas
"Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial"
from New Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Section 8 - Gender & Queer Theory a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 8.1 Butler
Judith
"From Interiority to Gender Performances"
from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. 8.2 iek
Slavoj
"Traversing the Fantasy"
[on Butler] from The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. 8.3 Foucault
Michel
"Scientia Sexualis"
from The History of Sexuality
volumes 1 & 3. 8.4 Sedgewick
Eve
"Epistemology of the Closet"
from Epistemology of the Closet. 8.5 Nigianni
Chrysanthi
"Butterfly Kiss: The Contagious Kiss of Becoming-Lesbian"
from Deleuze and Queer Theory. 8.6 Walters
Karina L.
et. al.
"'My Spirit in My Heart': Identity Experiences and Challenges Among American Indian Two-Spirit Women"
from Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex
Transgender
Intersectional
and Queer Perspectives. Section 9 - Feminism a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 9.1 Irigaray
Luce
"The Blind Spot of An Old Dream"
from Speculum of the Other Woman. 9.2 Cixous
Hélène
"Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays"
from The Newly Born Woman. 9.3 Gilbert
Sandra M.
& Susan D. Gubar
"Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship"
from The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. 9.4 Homans
Margaret
"'Women of Colour': Writers and Feminist Theory"
from New Literary History
25. 9.5 Shah
Sonia
"Introduction: Slaying the Dragon Lady
Toward an Asian American Feminism"
from Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. 9.6 Mikell
Gwendolyn
"African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation"
from Feminist Studies
21. 9.7 Cooke
Miriam
"Arab Women's Literary History"
from Women Claim Islam. Section 10 - New Textualities a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 10.1 Hutcheon
Linda & Michael Hutcheon
"Why Disease and Opera?"
from Opera: Desire
Disease
Death. 10.2 Grace
Sherrill
"Theatre and the AutoBiographical Pact: An Introduction"
from Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives In Theory and Practice. 10.3 Holland
Patrick & Graham Huggan
"Travel Writing at the Millennium"
from Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing. 10.4 Raglon
Rebecca & Marian Scholtmeijer
"Heading off the Trail: Language
Literature
and Nature's Resistance to Narrative"
from Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. 10.5 Derrida
Jacques
"Des Tours De Babel"
from Acts of Religion. 10.6 De Vries
Hent
"Hypertheology"
from Philosophy and the Turn to Religion. 10.7 Zimmerman
Jens
"Western Identity
the Exhaustion of Secular Reason
and the Return of Religion"
from Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering
the Sacred
and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. 10.8 iek
Slavoj
"Subtraction
Jewish and Christian"
from The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. 10.9 Drucker
Johanna
"Digital Humanities and Electronic Texts"
from "From Digital Humanities to Speculative Computing"
from Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing. 10.10 Siemens
Raymond
"Imagining the Manuscript and Printed Book in a Digital Age"
from Text Comparison and Digital Creativity: The Co-Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Textual Scholarship. 10. 11 Kang
Liu
"The Internet in China: Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions"
from Globalization and the Humanities. Section 11 - Globalization & Global Studies a. Section Introduction b. Extracts: 11.1 Gupta
Suman
"Literary Studies and Globalization"
from Globalization and Literature. 11.2 Brennan
Timothy
"From development to globalization: postcolonial studies and globalization theory"
from The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. 11.3 Xie
Shaobo
"Is the World Decentred? A Postcolonial Perspective on Globalization"
from Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions. 11.4 Ahmed
Akbar S & Hastings Donnan
"Islam in the Age of Postmodernity"
from Islam
Globalization
and Postmodernity. 11.5 Walkowitz
Rebecca L.
"The Location of Literature: The Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer"
from Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization.