Talking walking : essays in cultural criticism / Rachel Bowlby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowlby, Rachel, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brighton, [England] ; Portland, Oregon ; Toronto, [Ontario] : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.

Summary:

"When something called theory first broke onto the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading: new methods and subjects, and also new words to speak them. The syllabus and the styles would never be the same, and reading was proudly claimed as a mode of social critique. The short pieces brought together in Talking Walking engage with all sorts of arguments then, now and earlier about the uses and history of critical reading--of literature, and also of other cultural forms. There is much on the changing styles of literary-critical writing, and on the place of particular writers--Virginia Woolf or Jacques Derrida--in contemporary critical culture. There are pieces on clichés, on footnotes, on the language of the university job interview, on the use of 'domesticate' as a catch-all negative term. There are also essays on cultural questions informed by critical theory. For instance: why has the topic of walking been such a fruitful thinking theme in literature and philosophy? How does the history of shopping and marketing theory intersect with those of literature and subjectivity? How, in the light of reproductive technologies and new social forms, has becoming a parent turned into a culturally prominent kind of story? These are some of the questions that arise in the interview and essays that make up Rachel Bowlby's book, which derives from several decades of working and writing and talking and walking within the changing contemporary landscape of literary and critical studies. Old and new arrivals into this world will find pleasures of reading and matter for thinking on every page" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Talking walking 2016

Half art: Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life 2005

Readable city 1997

The time, the place and many me: Woolf's Evening over Sussex 2017

Shopping for Christmas 1998

Please enter your pin 2009

After dipus: changing family stories 2007

The third parent 2013

Woolf and childhood abuse 1992

Kinship under all: Judith Butler on Antigone 2002 - James's Maisie in Manhattan 2013

Domestication 1995

The joy of footnotes 1993

Clichés in the psychology of advertising 1996

Who's framing Virginia Woolf 1991

Woolf's working window 1995

Woolf in scholarly form 2011

Ginny Whizz 2011

The Pinker thinker 2014

Cultural studies and the literary 1997

Derrida's: Once and for all 2004

Derrida one day 2004

Theory again 2014

Yale theory 2016

Passionate about literature! 2007

The future of literary thinking 2016

Interview with David Jonathan Bayot and Jeremy De Chavez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78284-529-1

1-78284-527-5