A collection of 30 short poems, accompanied by photographs, Mapping Memory traces imaginary pathways across the Isle of Wight, over several decades. Together with its sister cycle, After the Ball, through word and image Mapping Memory invents what Thomas Hardy called a 'partly dream, partly real' country. Together, the poems and photographs explore the texture of memory, offering brief glimpses into places at once immediately accessible and yet ultimately secret in their echoes and resonances. With a Foreword by James Fleming and an Afterword by Ruth Heholt, Mapping Memory and After the Ball...

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...

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...