Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

ISBN-13: 9780333960592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 295 str.

Julian Wolfreys

Opis

Rather than a straightforward dictionary of terms, this book gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short extracts from the work of key thinkers and critics. Each term, concept or keyword and the passages discussing these are glossed and annotated; at the end of each entry a few reflective, practical questions direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address. The book is designed to be used as a dip-in reference book as well as a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.

Spis treści

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Critical Keywords: Abjection.- Aesthetics.- Alterity.- Aporia.- Carnival/Carnivalesque.- Class.- Culture.- Deconstruction.- Desire.- Difference/Différance.- Discourse.- Event.- Gender.- Hegemony.- Hyperreality.- Hypertext.- I/dentity.- Ideology.- Imaginary-Symbolic-Real.- Interpellation.- Intertextuality.- Iterability/Iteration.- Jouissance.- Khora/Chora.- Literature.- Materialism/Materiality.- Modernism.- Myth/ology.- Narrative/Narration.- Other.- Overdetermination.- Performativity.- Postmodernity/Postmodernism.- Power.- Queer.- Race.- Reader/Reading.- Sexuality/Sexual Difference.- Simulacrum/Simulation.- Subject/ivity.- Uncanny.- Unconscious.- Writing.- Afterwords: Literary and Cultural Theory: The Contested Ground of Critical Language, or Terms, Concepts, and Motifs.- Works Cited.- Index.

O autorze

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Victorian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Florida.

Blurb

This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today.

Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory
- gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension.
- supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed
- offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address
- provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research

This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.