Theory aside / edited by Jason Potts and Daniel Stout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Potts, Jason, 1967-

Stout, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Where can theory go now? Where other voices concern themselves with theory's life or death, the contributors to Theory Aside take up another possibility: that our theoretical prospects are better served worrying less about "what's next?" and more about "what else?" Instead of looking for the next big thing, the fourteen prominent thinkers in this volume take up lines of thought lost or overlooked during theory's canonization. They demonstrate that intellectual progress need not depend on the discovery of a new theorist or theory. Moving subtly through a diverse range of thinkers and topics-aesthetics, affect, animation and film studies, bibliography, cognitive science, globalization, phenomenology, poetics, political and postcolonial theory, race and identity, queer theory, and sociological reading practices-the contributors show that a more sustained, less apocalyptic attention to ideas might lead to a richer discussion of our intellectual landscapes and the place of the humanities and social sciences in it. In their turn away from the radically new, these essays reveal that what's fallen aside still surprises. Book jacket.

Contents:

On the side: allocations of attention in the theoretical moment / Jason Potts and Daniel Stout

Chronologies aside

Writing the history of homophobia / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Late exercises in minimal affirmatives / Anne-Lise Franç̧ois

Comparative noncontemporaneities: C. L. R. James and Ernst Bloch / Natalie Melas

On suicide, and other forms of social extinguishment / Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Approaches aside

What is historical poetics? / Simon Jarvis

The biopolitics of recognition: making female subjects of globalization / Pheng Cheah

Before racial construction / Irene Tucker

Archive favor: African American literature before and after theory / Jordan Alexander Stein

What cinema wasn't: animating film theory's double blind spot / Karen Beckman

Figures aside

Hyperbolic discounting and intertemporal bargaining / William Flesch

The primacy of sensation: psychophysics, phenomenology, whitehead / Mark B. N. Hansen

Reading the social: Erving Goffman and sexuality studies / Heather Love

I. A. Richards and the practice of style / Frances Ferguson

Needing to know (:) theory afterwords / Ian Balfour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822356707

0822356708

9780822356813

0822356813

OCLC:

865711603