Barry Laga

Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts. It focuses on the key concepts that help readers understand literature and cultural events in new and provocative ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351357487
• Artikelnr.: 54272687

Autorenporträt

Barry Laga is Professor of English and Department Head of Languages, Literature, and Mass Communication at Colorado Mesa University, USA. He teaches literary theory, American literature, film, and composition, and publishes on American literature, film, and cultural studies. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and Universität Leipzig, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Joining the Community 1. Becoming a Subject
2. Scripting Identity 3. Doing Not Describing 4. Enjoying the Carnivalesque
5. Reading as Writing 6. Simulating the Real 7. Creating a Space Between 8.
Performing Gender 9. Locating Trauma 10. Intersecting Identities 11.
Locating Alterity 12. Poaching Texts 13. Cultivating Rhizomes 14.
Reconciling Double Consciousness 15. Shocking Readers 16. Joining Power and
Knowledge 17. Revealing the Uncanny 18. Questioning Human/Nonhuman
Boundaries 19. Historicizing and Contextualizing 20. Signifying Through
Time 21. Thinking Ecologically 22. Recognizing Conceptual Metaphors 23.
Representing Disability 24. Losing and Recovering Our Sovereignty 25.
Resisting the Dominant Culture 26. Adapting and Appropriating 27.
Describing Homosocial Relationships 28. Defamiliarizing the Familiar 29.
Questioning Gender Binaries 30. Building on Another's Work: Identifying Key
Concepts; Index