Reframing critical, literary, and cultural theories :
[Book]
thought on the edge /
Nicoletta Pireddu, editor.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Recoding the Past, Re-situating the "Post-"; 1 From Relativism to Relationism; 2 True, False, and In-Between; 3 The Truth of the Tale; 4 Thought on the Edge; Works Cited; Part I Theoretical Indisciplinarities; Chapter 2 Meta-Critiquing: Critique, Hermeneutics, Theory; 1 Critique: From Kant to Foucault; 2 Hermeneutics Versus Critique: A Special Hermeneutic Circle; 3 Theory: Theorizing the Virtual; 4 Meta-Critiquing; 5 Global-Intercultural: Alternative Thinking; Works Cited
2 The Epistemological Naturalization of Literary Darwinism3 Digital Humanities and Inductive Approaches; 4 The Normalization of Literary Knowledge; Works Cited; Chapter 6 Unstable Literature; Works Cited; Part II Unruly Rereadings; Chapter 7 Reading Aristocratically; I; II; III; IV; V; Works Cited; Chapter 8 The Function of Criticism in a "Post-secular" Age; Works Cited; Chapter 9 Literary Ciceronianism and the Novel; 1 Suspicion and Enchantment in the Republic of Letters; 2 Recovering Cicero; 3 The Republican Novel: For Whom the Bell Tolls as Case Study
4 Cicero and the Counter-CultureWorks Cited; Chapter 10 Taliban Poetry for Veterans: On Critical Pedagogy; 1 Students; 2 Sources; 3 Constructions; 4 Needs; 5 Actions; Work Cited; Part III Critical Resettlements; Chapter 11 Space, Mobility, and Materiality: Rethinking Notions of Geographic Coherence; Works Cited; Chapter 12 Postsocialism and the Afterlives of Revolution: Impossible Spaces of Dissent; 1 Postsocialism: Re-evaluating Liberalism and Authoritarianism and the Cold War 2.0; 2 The Light Revolution; 3 Colorful Revolution; 4 Impossible Spaces; Works Cited
Chapter 13 Outsourcing PostcolonialismWorks Cited; Chapter 14 Experimental Cosmopolitanism; 1 Worlds with and Without Nutshells; 2 Cosmopolitanism, Singular and Plural; 3 Experimenting and Experiencing; 4 Possible Reading Worlds, Shared Planet; 5 Conclusions: For a Cosmopolitan Bricolage; Works Cited; Index
Chapter 3 Illegitimacy as Norm: On the Temporality of Science and Theory1 Philology as Passion; 2 Living with Progress; 3 The Practice of Theory; Works Cited; Chapter 4 The Scope of Literary Theory; 1 Theory: I Know It When I See It; 2 A Brief Illustration; 3 Theory Versus Theories: A Note on Description and Explanation; 4 Theory: What Does It Do for You?; 5 What Is Theory?: A Preliminary Summary; 6 Targets of Literary Theory: The Range of Literary Study; 7 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 5 The Empirical Turn of Literary Studies; 1 Literature and Cognitive Sciences
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This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged "death of theory" and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the "finitude" of theoretical projects does not mean "end", but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines. Contributors from different cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents propose new areas of investigation and interpretive possibilities, reopening dialogues with past and present discourses from a plurality of perspectives and locations. After a first section that reassesses the status and scopes of critique, theory, and literature, the book foregrounds new or neglected critical vocabulary, literary paradigms, and narrative patterns to reread texts at the intersection with other branches of the humanities--history, philosophy, religion, and pedagogy. It then explores geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological domains that have been historically and ideologically overdetermined (such as postsocialist, postcolonial, and cosmopolitan spaces), recodifying them as unstable sites of both conflicts and convergences. By acknowledging the spatio-temporal and cultural delimitations of any intellectual practice, the book creates awareness of our own partiality and incompleteness, but treats boundaries as zones of contact, exchange, and conceptual mobility that promote crossings and connections.
Reframing critical, literary, and cultural theories.