Ten lessons in theory : an introduction to theoretical writing /: an introduction to theoretical writing. (2013 copyright 2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Calvin Thomas.
• Other Names: Thomas, Calvin, 1956-
• Contents: Acknowledgments Preface: 'Something worth reading': Theory and/as the Art of the Sentence Introductory Matters: What Theory Does, Why Theory Lives Lesson 1: 'The world must be made to mean'- or, in(tro)ducing the subject of human reality Lesson 2: 'Meaning is the polite word for pleasure'- or, how the beast in the nursery learns to read Lesson 3: 'Language is by nature fictional'- or, why the word for moonlight can't be moonlight Lesson 4: 'Desire must be taken literally'- a few words on death, sex, and interpretation Lesson 5: 'You are not yourself'- or, I (think, therefore I) is an other Lesson 6: 'This restlessness is us'- or, the least that can be said about Hegel Lesson 7: 'There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism'- or, the fates of literary formalism Lesson 8: 'The unconscious is structured like a language'- or, invasions of the signifier Lesson 9: 'There is nothing outside the text'- or, fear of the proliferation of meaning Lesson 10: 'One is not born a woman'- on making the world queerer than ever In the End: Theory is (not-) Forever Reference Matters Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 808/.042; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Knowledge, Theory of; Criticism -- History; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literary theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623563042; 1623563046
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