Theory matters : the place of theory in Literary and Cultural studies today /: the place of theory in Literary and Cultural studies today. (2016)
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- Book
- Title:
- Theory matters : the place of theory in Literary and Cultural studies today /: the place of theory in Literary and Cultural studies today. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Theory matters : the place of theory in Literary and Cultural studies today
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt.
- Authors:
- Middeke, Martin
- Editors:
- Reinfandt, Christoph
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Contents ; Contributors ; chapter 1: Introduction: The€Place of€Theory Today; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Metatheory; chapter 2: Comes the€Revolution; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 3: Literary Theory in€Reverse: The€Literariness of€Theory; Introduction: Faust, Kittler, and€Blabla; Theory and€Literariness; The Place of€Theory; Conclusion: Theory and€the€University; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 4: Misreading Shelley, Misreading Theory: Deconstruction, Media, and€Materiality; The Triumph of€Theory; The Triumph of€Language; The Triumph of€Reading; Theoretical Doubts. Literary DoubtsReaderly Doubts; Future English Studies: Corporeal Reading, Material Media; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: 'I am, yet what I€am': Theory, Being, and€Dis-appearance; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Matter Against Materialism: Bruno Latour and€the€Turn to€Objects; Object and€Commodities; Form and€Deformation; Non-materialism; The Misery of€Criticism; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Avoiding Poststructuralism at Its Root: Towards a€New Literary Theory; Husserl; Essentiality; Essential Generality; Omnitemporality; Living Temporality; Imagining; Genetic Project; Derrida's Critique. First DeferralSecond Deferral; Arriving at Différant; Developing Husserl; Avoiding Derrida's Critique; Avoiding Derrida's First Deferral; Avoiding Derrida's Second Deferral; Avoiding Différant; Literature; Bibliography; chapter 8: Interlude I: The€Cultures of€Reflexivity; Bibliography; Part II: Cultural Theory; Chapter 9:Acknowledgements; Contents ; Contributors ; chapter 1: Introduction: The€Place of€Theory Today; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Metatheory; chapter 2: Comes the€Revolution; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 3: Literary Theory in€Reverse: The€Literariness of€Theory; Introduction: Faust, Kittler, and€Blabla; Theory and€Literariness; The Place of€Theory; Conclusion: Theory and€the€University; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 4: Misreading Shelley, Misreading Theory: Deconstruction, Media, and€Materiality; The Triumph of€Theory; The Triumph of€Language; The Triumph of€Reading; Theoretical Doubts. Literary DoubtsReaderly Doubts; Future English Studies: Corporeal Reading, Material Media; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: 'I am, yet what I€am': Theory, Being, and€Dis-appearance; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Matter Against Materialism: Bruno Latour and€the€Turn to€Objects; Object and€Commodities; Form and€Deformation; Non-materialism; The Misery of€Criticism; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Avoiding Poststructuralism at Its Root: Towards a€New Literary Theory; Husserl; Essentiality; Essential Generality; Omnitemporality; Living Temporality; Imagining; Genetic Project; Derrida's Critique. First DeferralSecond Deferral; Arriving at Différant; Developing Husserl; Avoiding Derrida's Critique; Avoiding Derrida's First Deferral; Avoiding Derrida's Second Deferral; Avoiding Différant; Literature; Bibliography; chapter 8: Interlude I: The€Cultures of€Reflexivity; Bibliography; Part II: Cultural Theory; Chapter 9: The University: A€Matter of€Theoretical Importance; Introduction; Immaterial Realities; Material Theory; The Matter of€the€University; Managing Money: Materializing Theory; Bibliography; Chapter 10: When Theory Is Not Enough: A€Material Turn in€Gender Studies. Faithfully, GenderedMatter, Again; A.€L. Kennedy and€the€Material Art of€Fiction; Bibliography; Chapter 11: Luhmann in€da Contact Zone: Towards a€Postcolonial Critique of€Sociological Systems Theory; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Bibliography; Chapter 12: Passive Voice: Democratic Indifference and€the€Vibrant Matter of€Literature; Activists as€Passivists as€Activists as€Passivists; Literature as€Vibrant Matter; Bibliography; Chapter 13: Managing Complexity: The€'Literary Turn' in€Organization Studies; I; II; III; Bibliography; Chapter 14: Interlude II: Ideologies of€Habitus; Bibliography. Part III: Critical TheoryChapter 15: Ecological Transformations of€Critical Theory; Emergence and€Directions of€Ecocriticism; Ecocriticism and€Critical Theory: From€Antagonism to€Alliance; Cultural Ecology and/as Literary Theory; Theory Matters to€Texts-Texts Matter to€Theory: Cultural-Ecological Readings of€Two American Poems; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 16: The Literary Work as€Ethical Event; Bibliography; Chapter 17: Ethics and€Agency: The€Limits and€Necessity of€Ethical Criticism; Introduction: Ethicism; Fiction as€Referential Obligation: Art Is Truth. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 801/.95
Literature
Culture -- Study and teaching
Literature -- Philosophy
Aesthetics
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
Aesthetics
Culture -- Study and teaching
Literature
Literature -- Philosophy
Social Science -- General
Philosophy -- Aesthetics
Cultural studies
Philosophy: aesthetics
Literary theory
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137474285
1137474289 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781137474278
1137474270 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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