Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory

ISBN-13: 9783031493850 / Angielski

Davor Beganovic; Zrinka Bozic; Andrea Milanko

Spis treści

1 INTRODUCTION

Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko, Ivana Perica

PART I:  SYNECDOCHIC PROCEDURES

2 Analytical vs Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia (Aage A. Hansen-Löve)

3 The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrović and the Zagreb School (Predrag Brebanović)

4 An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure (Dagmar Burkhart)

5 The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis (Marina Protrka Štimec)

PART II: PROCEDURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY

6 Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature (Tomislav Brlek)

7 Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground (Stijn Vervaet)

8 The Rhetoric of the Unsayable (Renate Lachmann)

9 Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid (Nevena Daković)

PART III: PROCEDURES OF MATERIALISM

10 The Economies of Theory and Resistance (Stipe Grgas)

11 Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim’s and Lukács’s Third Ways (Ivana Perica)

12 On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) (Jurij Murašov)

13 Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović (Davor Beganović)

PART IV: MASTERING PROCEDURES

14 Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures (Zrinka Božić)

15 Literature’s Theories (Svend Erik Larsen)

16 Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric (Andrea Milanko)

PART V: RESISTING PROCEDURES

17 On Halt! (Vivian Liska)

18 Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c (Nenad Ivić)

19 The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism (Aleksandar Mijatović)

O autorze

Davor Beganović is Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany, Research Fellow at the Slavic Department of the University of Münster, and Adjunct Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland and in the Slavic Department of the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Zrinka Božić is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Andrea Milanko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Ivana Perica is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, Germany, and collaborator on “The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe”, a research project funded by the European Union (HORIZON EUROPE, 2023-2027).

Blurb

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historical constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory’s procedural nature. In order to assess theory’s procedural challenge to the fundamental notions that all the disciplines within an episteme have brought to the fore, it addresses these questions: What are the procedures theory has relied on? Are they a secret to its resistance, or is resistance its primary procedure? And if so, a resistance to what? Secondly, if resistance were theory’s principal vehicle, at which point does resistance, conceptualized only procedurally (as resisting something, questioning anything, criticizing whatever), display hallmarks of a disciplinary closure that must call for new resistances, and perhaps for a fundamentally another kind? The book turns to what theory does in order to avoid a partial answer to what theory is.

Davor Beganović is Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany, Research Fellow at the Slavic Department of the University of Münster, and Adjunct Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland and in the Slavic Department of the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Zrinka Božić is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Andrea Milanko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Ivana Perica is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, Germany, and collaborator on “The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe”, a research project funded by the European Union (HORIZON EUROPE, 2023-2027).