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Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century / Julian Wolfreys.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfreys, Julian, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- Criticism--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Provides a wide-ranging guide to current directions in literary criticismGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748695294','ISBN:9780748695317']);This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century.The chapters provide thought-provoking overviews of critical thinking at the cutting edge. Each of the authors explains in lucid terms the various contours of their discourses while bringing these into sharp relief for the student reader through readings of canonical novels, poems, plays, films and websites. The book is organised into five areas of critical concern – The Poetics and Politics of Identity; Critical Voices: Ethical Questions; Materialities, Immaterialities, (A)materialities, Realities; Space, Place & Memory. These orientations reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of critical and cultural studies, as do the themes covered within the volume: Diaspora Criticism, Gender and Transgender Criticism, Women of Color and Feminist Criticism, Chaos Theory, Complexity Theory and Criticism, Ethical Criticism, Trauma and Testimonial Criticism, Ecocriticism, Spatial Criticism, Cybercriticism, Deleuzean Criticism, Levinas and Criticism, Spectral Criticism and (A)material Criticism.New for this edition:6 new chapters addressing new approaches to criticismA revised introductionKey Features:Addresses the various 'states of criticism' at the beginning of the centuryEach chapter explores and explains aspects of the theory it addresses, provides a brief 3-4 page reading of a literary text, film text or website and concludes with questions for further consideration, an annotated bibliography and a supplementary bibliographyThe critical readings provide a teaching and study resource and demonstrate the scope of theoretical applications"
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Developments, Debates, Departures, Differences, Directions
- The Poetics and Politics of Identity
- 1. The Writings of Intimacy: Theories of Affect, Emotion and Relationality
- 2. Gender and Transgender Criticism
- 3. Love and the Other: The Example of Giorgio Agamben
- Critical Voices, Ethical Questions
- 4. Critical Companions: Derrida, Haraway and Other Animals
- 5. Ethical Criticism and the Philosophical Turn
- 6. Levinas and Criticism: Ethics in the Impossibility of Criticism
- 7. Ecocriticism
- Materialities, Immaterialities, (A)materialities, Realities
- 8. Critical Making in the Digital Humanities
- 9. Roger Whitson
- 10. Deleuzean Criticism
- Space, Place and Memory
- 11. Affect Theory
- 12. Space and Place in Critical Reading
- 13. Trauma, Testimony, Criticism: Witnessing, Memory and Responsibility
- 14. Memory and Memory Work
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9780748695300
- 0748695303
- 9780585443409
- 0585443408
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