New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come

ISBN-13: 9780748699643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Julian Wolfreys

Opis

Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of 'theory' today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard 'isms': Literary Reading in a Digital Age; Critical Making in the Digital Humanities; Thing Theory; Memory Work and Criticism; Body, Objects, Technology; Criticism and 'The Animal'; Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study; Critical and Creative Practice: Conditions for Success in the Writing Workshop; Affect Theory; Spectrality; Critical Climate Change.
A final rounding off chapter on Historicising presents debates around historically oriented criticism, including a 'round table' among the contributors. Each chapter also provides a critical 'case study' of a text or texts, including poetry writing guides, a Seamus Heaney poem, film adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, e-readers and kindles, First World War poetry and prose, steampunk, and Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways.
From 'Thing Theory' to animal theory, multimodality to film adaptation, and from acts of reading in a digital age to the creative writing workshop, the volume reflects a radical reorientation in critical modes of thinking.

Spis treści

Introduction: New Critical Thinking, to Read so as to Become Acquainted, Julian Wolfreys; 1. Turnings and Re-Turnings, Mary Ann Caws; 2. ‘Peering into the dark machinery’: Modernity, Perception, and the Self in John Burnside’s Poetry, Monika Szuba; 3. Modernity’s Sylvan Subjectivity, from Gainsborough to Gallaccio, Catherine Bernard; 4. Little Did They Know: Toward an Experiential Approach, Sarah Pardon; 5. ‘The Heart cannot forget / Unless it contemplates / What it declines’: Emily Dickinson, Frank Ankersmit, and the Art of Forgetting, Páraic Finnerty; 6. Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning, Anton Froeyman; 7. Writing Fiction, Making History: Historical Narrative and the Process of Creating History, Christine Berberich; 8. Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics, Kelly Oliver; 9. A Norwegian Abroad: Camilla Collett’s Travelogues from Berlin to Paris, Tone Selboe; 10. Alfred Jarry’s Nietzschean Modernism, Jean-Michel Rabaté; 11. On First Looking into Derrida’s Glas, J. Hillis Miller; 12. ‘A very black and little Arab Jew’: Experience and Experimentation or, Two Words for Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys.