Theory After 'Theory'

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136827404
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Book Synopsis Theory After 'Theory' by : Jane Elliott

Download or read book Theory After 'Theory' written by Jane Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well as examinations of established areas such as subaltern studies, the postcolonial, and ethics. Influential figures such as Agamben, Badiou, Arendt, Deleuze, Derrida and Meillassoux are examined in a range of contexts. Gathering together some of the top thinkers in the field, this volume not only speculates on the fate of theory but shows its current diversity, encouraging conversation between divergent strands. Each section places the essays in their contexts and stages a comparison between different but ultimately related ways in which key thinkers are moving beyond poststructuralism. Contributors: Amanda Anderson, Ray Brassier, Adriana Cavarero, Eva Cherniavsky, Rey Chow, Claire Colebrook, Laurent Dubreuil, Roberto Esposito, Simon Gikandi, Martin Hagglünd, Peter Hallward, Brian Massumi, Peter Osborne, Elizabeth Povinelli, William Rasch, Henry Staten, Bernard Stiegler, Eugene Thacker, Cary Wolfe, Linda Zerilli.

Theory After Theory

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460402987
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Theory After Theory by : Nicholas Birns

Download or read book Theory After Theory written by Nicholas Birns and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture. Accessible but rigorous, this book provides a wealth of historical and intellectual context that allows the reader to make sense of the movements in recent literary theory.

After Theory

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141927887
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis After Theory by : Terry Eagleton

Download or read book After Theory written by Terry Eagleton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them. What kind of new, fresh thinking does this new era demand? Eagleton concludes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously again - not so that it can hand the West its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the grand narratives in which it is now embroiled.

Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montaigne

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295988916
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Book Synopsis Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montaigne by : Zahi Zalloua

Download or read book Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montaigne written by Zahi Zalloua and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as "theory." Montaigne's life and writings have drawn myriad interpretations. While some scholars of his work focus on the content of the writings to define the man, others stress his playful use of language. Montaigne's complex and multifaceted works provide fertile ground for exploring themes of wide-ranging significance within the field of literary theory, including the relationship between biography and theory; the critique of modernism; a critical history of the confessional mode of writing; sexuality and gender; and the theory of practice. The essays in this collection move beyond the current stalemate in Montaigne criticism by revisiting questions about the role of theory in literary studies and by opening up a dialogue on the validity and limitations, or use and abuse, of theory in Montaigne studies.

Beginning Theory

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062681
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis Beginning Theory by : Peter Barry

Download or read book Beginning Theory written by Peter Barry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and updated from the original edition first published in 1995, Peter Barry has incorporated all of the recent developments in literary theory, adding two new chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and the re-emerging Narratology.

Reading After Theory

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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631221678
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading After Theory by : Valentine Cunningham

Download or read book Reading After Theory written by Valentine Cunningham and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-02-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.

The Novel After Theory

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231157436
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Novel After Theory by : Judith Ryan

Download or read book The Novel After Theory written by Judith Ryan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides fresh insight into the recent development of the novel and the persistence of modern theory beyond the period of its greatest success. In this book, Judith Ryan opens these questions to a range of readers, drawing them into debates over the value of theory. Ryan investigates what prompted fiction writers to incorporate and respond to theory nearly thirty years ago. Designed for readers unfamiliar with the complexities of theory, Ryan’s book introduces the discipline’s major trends and controversies and notes the salient ideas of a carefully selected set of individual thinkers. Ryan follows novelists’ adaptation to and engagement with arguments drawn from theory as they translate abstract ideas into language, structure, and fictional strategy. At the core of her book is a fascinating microstudy of French poststructuralism in its dialogue with narrative fiction. Investigating theories of textuality, psychology, and society in the work of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, W. G. Sebald, and Umberto Eco, as well as Monika Maron, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Marilynne Robinson, David Foster Wallace, and Christa Wolf, Ryan identifies subtle negotiations between author and theory and the richness this dynamic adds to texts. Resetting the way we think and learn about literature, her book reads current literary theory while uniquely tracing its shaping of a genre.

Social Theory after the Internet

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Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787351246
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Theory after the Internet by : Ralph Schroeder

Download or read book Social Theory after the Internet written by Ralph Schroeder and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.

Literary Theory

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ISBN 13 : 019285318X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary Theory by : Terry Eagleton

Download or read book Literary Theory written by Terry Eagleton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare After Theory

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135965110
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare After Theory by : David Scott Kastan

Download or read book Shakespeare After Theory written by David Scott Kastan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us.

What's Left of Theory?

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135962871
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis What's Left of Theory? by : Judith Butler

Download or read book What's Left of Theory? written by Judith Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.

Metamodernism

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678665X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Metamodernism by : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Download or read book Metamodernism written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening -- Part I. Metarealism. How the real world became a fable, or, The realities of social construction -- Part II. Process social ontology. Concepts in disintegration & strategies for demolition ; Process social ontology ; Social kinds -- Part III. Hylosemiotics. Hylosemiotics : the discourse of things -- Part IV. Knowledge and value. Zetetic knowledge ; The revaluation of values -- Conclusion : becoming metamodern.

Reason After Its Eclipse

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 029930650X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Reason After Its Eclipse by : Martin Jay

Download or read book Reason After Its Eclipse written by Martin Jay and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.

After Derrida

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ISBN 13 : 1108426107
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis After Derrida by : Jean-Michel Rabaté

Download or read book After Derrida written by Jean-Michel Rabaté and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays introduces the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida who exerts a huge influence on literary criticism.

The Highway of Despair

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538898
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis The Highway of Despair by : Robyn Marasco

Download or read book The Highway of Despair written by Robyn Marasco and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, is the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freedom. Despair, the passionate residue of Hegelian critique, also indicates fugitive opportunities for freedom and preserves the principle of hope against all hope. Analyzing the works of an eclectic cast of thinkers, Robyn Marasco considers the dynamism of despair as a critical passion, reckoning with the forms of historical life forged along Hegel's highway. The Highway of Despair follows Theodor Adorno, Georges Bataille, and Frantz Fanon as they each read, resist, and reconfigure a strand of thought in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Confronting the twentieth-century collapse of a certain revolutionary dialectic, these thinkers struggle to revalue critical philosophy and recast Left Hegelianism within the contexts of genocidal racism, world war, and colonial domination. Each thinker also re-centers the role of passion in critique. Arguing against more recent trends in critical theory that promise an escape from despair, Marasco shows how passion frustrates the resolutions of reason and faith. Embracing the extremism of what Marx, in the spirit of Hegel, called the "ruthless critique of everything existing," she affirms the contemporary purchase of radical critical theory, resulting in a passionate approach to political thought.

After Poststructuralism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0203569229
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis After Poststructuralism by : Colin Davis

Download or read book After Poststructuralism written by Colin Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'. In this brilliantly argued volume, Colin Davis: *reconsiders key arguments for and against theory, identifying significant misreadings *reassesses the contribution of poststructuralist thought to the critical issues of knowledge, ethics, hope and identity *sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser and Julia Kristeva in a stunning series of readings *offers a fresh perspective on recent debates around the death of theory. In closing he argues that theory may change, but it will not go away. After poststructuralism, then, comes the afterlife of poststructuralism. Wonderfully accessible, this is an account of the past and present fortunes of theory, suitable for anyone researching, teaching, or studying in the field. And yet it is much more than this. Colin Davis provides a way forward for the humanities - a way forward in which theory will play a crucial part.

Situational Analysis

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761930566
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Book Synopsis Situational Analysis by : Adele E. Clarke

Download or read book Situational Analysis written by Adele E. Clarke and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an introduction to situational analysis, Adele E. Clarke outlines how this method differs from and is superior to grounded theory and to qualitative data analysis.