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Glossalalia : an alphabet of critical keywords / edited by Julian Wolfreys ; editorial assistant Harun Karim Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfreys, Julian, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism--Miscellanea.
- Criticism.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 400 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614356);Although alphabetically arranged, Glossalalia - An Alphabet of Critical Keywordsis not a conventional glossary or dictionary. It is an agenda-setting volume which speculates on the state of theory in the twenty-first century.26 newly commissioned essays provide distinct, original sometimes playful or unusual definitions of theoretical keywords - both unexpected terms as well as words well-established in the critical canon:AnimalityBiotechnologiesChoraDifferenceEventFlirtingGeneticsHypertextIJouissanceKnowledgeLoveMusicNationOriginsPoeticsQuiltingReificationSchizoanalysisTele-techno-theologyUniversalsVisualityWitXYarnZeroThe volume invites the reader to engage with and enjoy theory, to seek out connections and become aware of the process of critical thinking. Anyone with theoretical interests in the humanities and in the future possibilities of theory will be delighted and intrigued by this volume."
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Foreword: the alphabetic body
- Animality
- Biotechnologies
- Chora
- Difference
- Event
- Flirting
- Genetics
- Hypertext
- I
- Jouissance
- Knowledge
- Love
- Music
- Nation
- Origins
- Poetics
- Quilting
- Reification
- Schizoanalysis
- Tele-techno-theology
- Universals
- Visuality
- Wit
- X
- Yarn
- Zero
- Notes on contributors
- Index of proper names
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781474473620
- 1474473628
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