Post-Theory : : New Directions in Criticism / / Robin Purves, Graeme Macdonald, Martin McQuillan.

Post-Theory brings together some of the most prominent figures and rising stars in the field of Critical Theory. Essays consider such issues as: the current state of Critical Theory; the type of work Theory has made possible; and the future of theory. Opening with a Preface by Ernesto Laclau, the bo...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Joy of Theory
  • Part I. Déjà Vu
  • 1. Déjà Vu
  • 2. Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'
  • 3. Post-Gender: Jurassic Feminism Meets Queer Politics
  • 4. The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a Post-Marxist World
  • 5. Is the Novel Original? Derrida and (Post-)Modernity
  • 6. Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of 'Post-Theory'
  • Part II. Inter
  • 7. Inter
  • Part III. The Post-Theory Condition
  • 8. English Studies in the Postmodern Condition: Towards a Place for the Signifier
  • 9. Ethopoeia, Source-Study and Legal History: A Post-Theoretical Approach to the Question of 'Character' in Shakespearean Drama
  • 10. The Death Drive Does Not Think
  • 11. 'Various Infinitudes': Narration, Embodiment and Ontology in Beckett's How It Is and Spinoza's Ethics
  • 12. Edward Said after Theory: The Limits of Counterpoint
  • 13. Grounding Theory: Literary Theory and the New Geography
  • Post-Word
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index