Evan Gottlieb

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317526292
• Artikelnr.: 57923103

Autorenporträt

Evan Gottlieb is Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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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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 Zizek: 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