Glossalalia - An Alphabet of Critical Keywords / / Julian Wolfreys.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wolfreys, Julian,
• MitwirkendeR: Brannigan, John,; Conley, Tom,; Cottom, Daniel,; Critchley, Simon,; Cunningham, Valentine,; Currie, Mark,; Harpold, Terry,; Johnson, Christopher,; Leavey Jr., John P.,; Lorraine, Tamsin,; López, Silvia L.,; MacCannell, Juliet Flower,; McQuillan, Martin,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Milne, Drew,; Pepper, Thomas,; Plotnitsky, Arkady,; Robbins, Ruth,; Rotman, Brian,; Russett, Margaret,; Smith, Stephanie A.,; Ulmer, Gregory L.,; Ungar, Steven,; Ward, Geoff,; Wolfreys, Julian,; Young, Frederick,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474473620; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474473620
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julian Wolfreys.

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."