"What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just "literature" but "world" literature? These essays offer accounts of how the "worlding" of literature both problematizes the national categorizing of theory (e.g., French theory) and brings new meanings and challenges to the coming together of theory and literature. In sum, they offer Theory as World Literature as a viable alternative to more commonplace approaches to theory. By approaching theory from a perspective more attuned toward the complexity and precarity of the world, this volume acknowledges that theory is more worldly now than ever"--…mehr
"What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just "literature" but "world" literature? These essays offer accounts of how the "worlding" of literature both problematizes the national categorizing of theory (e.g., French theory) and brings new meanings and challenges to the coming together of theory and literature. In sum, they offer Theory as World Literature as a viable alternative to more commonplace approaches to theory. By approaching theory from a perspective more attuned toward the complexity and precarity of the world, this volume acknowledges that theory is more worldly now than ever"--
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke, editor-in-chief of American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.
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Theory as World Literature: An Introduction Jeffrey R. Di Leo University of Houston-Victoria USA Part I. Indigeneity Decoloniality and Race 1. Destructive Writing and Ending the World Claire Colebrook Penn State University USA 2. Archipelagic Thought as World Literature: Glissant Wynter and Derrida's Genres of the World Mina Karavanta National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece 3. Countering Encounters: Theorizing the Scale of Globality Peter Hitchcock CUNY Graduate Center USA 4. Critical Race Theory: Counter-Storytelling as Worlding Nicole Simek Whitman College USA Part II. Semiotics and Psychoanalysis 5. Umberto Eco and the World Literature of Semiotics Jeffrey R. Di Leo University of Houston-Victoria USA 6. Kristeva's Sémanalyse as World Literature: From Chora and Revolution to Abjection and Revolt Paul Allen Miller University of South Carolina USA 7. Psychoanalysis as World Literature Zahi Zalloua Whitman College USA Part III. Realisms Aesthetics and Politics 8. From the Magically Real to the Really Real: When Latin American Literature Became World Theory Sophia McClennen Penn State University USA 9. Approaches to Realism: A Few Global Test Cases Margaret R. Higonnet University of Connecticut USA 10. Literature as a Global Theory Alex Taek-Gwang Lee Kyung Hee University South Korea 11. Said's Worldliness H. Aram Veeser CUNY Graduate Center USA Part IV. Phenomenology Philology and Plasticity 12. Levinas and World Literature Donald R. Wehrs Auburn University USA 13. World Philology and World Theory Alexander Beecroft University of South Carolina USA 14. Plastic World Literature Ranjan Ghosh University of North Benjal India Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Theory as World Literature: An Introduction Jeffrey R. Di Leo University of Houston-Victoria USA Part I. Indigeneity Decoloniality and Race 1. Destructive Writing and Ending the World Claire Colebrook Penn State University USA 2. Archipelagic Thought as World Literature: Glissant Wynter and Derrida's Genres of the World Mina Karavanta National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece 3. Countering Encounters: Theorizing the Scale of Globality Peter Hitchcock CUNY Graduate Center USA 4. Critical Race Theory: Counter-Storytelling as Worlding Nicole Simek Whitman College USA Part II. Semiotics and Psychoanalysis 5. Umberto Eco and the World Literature of Semiotics Jeffrey R. Di Leo University of Houston-Victoria USA 6. Kristeva's Sémanalyse as World Literature: From Chora and Revolution to Abjection and Revolt Paul Allen Miller University of South Carolina USA 7. Psychoanalysis as World Literature Zahi Zalloua Whitman College USA Part III. Realisms Aesthetics and Politics 8. From the Magically Real to the Really Real: When Latin American Literature Became World Theory Sophia McClennen Penn State University USA 9. Approaches to Realism: A Few Global Test Cases Margaret R. Higonnet University of Connecticut USA 10. Literature as a Global Theory Alex Taek-Gwang Lee Kyung Hee University South Korea 11. Said's Worldliness H. Aram Veeser CUNY Graduate Center USA Part IV. Phenomenology Philology and Plasticity 12. Levinas and World Literature Donald R. Wehrs Auburn University USA 13. World Philology and World Theory Alexander Beecroft University of South Carolina USA 14. Plastic World Literature Ranjan Ghosh University of North Benjal India Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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