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] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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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