Download or read book Reframing Critical Literary and Cultural Theories written by Nicoletta Pireddu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Reframing Critical Literary and Cultural Theories written by Nicoletta Pireddu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Critical Content Analysis of Children s and Young Adult Literature written by Holly Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use for critical analyses. They also reflect on how these research strategies can inform classrooms and children as readers. Critical content analysis offers researchers a methodology for examining representations of power and position in global and multicultural children’s and adolescent literature. This methodology highlights the critical as locating power in social practices by understanding, uncovering, and transforming conditions of inequity. Importantly, it also provides insights into specific global and multicultural books significant within classrooms as well as strategies that teachers can use to engage students in critical literacy.

Download or read book Post Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies written by Zekiye Antakyalioglu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth, value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset of the new century. This volume presents the various suggestions and concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities of the contemporary social and cultural life. The book is a source of reference to develop an understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach to the current problems worldwide, their representations in literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.

Download or read book Reframing Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies written by Nora Berning and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Museum Mediations written by Barbara K. Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to contemporary poems about the visual arts that foreground and interrogate a museum setting, the book demonstrates the particular importance of the museum as a cultural site that is both inspiration and provocation for poets. The study uniquely bridges the dual canon in contemporary poetry (and calls the lyric/avant-garde distinction into question) by analyzing museum-sponsored anthologies as well as poems by John Ashbery, Richard Howard, Kenneth Koch, Kathleen Fraser, Cole Swensen, Anne Carson, and others. Through these case studies of poets with diverse affiliations, the author shows that the boom in ekphrasis in the past 20 years is not only an aesthetic but a critical phenomenon, a way that poets have come to terms with the critical dilemmas of our moment. Highlighting the importance of poets' peripheral vision-awareness of the institutional conditions that frame encounters with art-the author contend that a museum visit becomes a forum for questioning oppositions that have preoccupied literary criticism for the past 50 years: homage and innovation, modernism and postmodernism, subjectivity and collectivity. The study shows that ekphrasis becomes a strategy for negotiating these impasses-a mode of political inquiry, a meditation on canonization, a venue for comic appraisal of institutionalization, and a means of site-specific feminist revision-in a vital synthesis of critique, perspicacity, and pleasure.

Download or read book Contemporary Literary And Cultural Theory From Structuralism To Ecocriticism written by Nayar and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Torn Halves written by Robert Young and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relation of politics to theory? Theories make political claims, theorists make political critiques, and academics use theory in the pursuit of institutional ends: theory is not only about politics but is itself a political practice.

Download or read book Reframing Punishment Reflections of Culture Literature and Morals written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume offers an attempt to question, perplex and ultimately reframe our collective understanding of punishment.

Download or read book Cultural Criticism Literary Theory Poststructuralism written by Vincent B. Leitch and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leitch argues for the use of poststructural theory in cultural criticism. He maintains that deconstruction remains crucial for a truly critical approach to cultural studies.

Download or read book How to Interpret Literature written by Robert Dale Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory."--Back cover.

Download or read book Post Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies written by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies brings to attention the post-theoretical discussions on the changing perceptions in literary and cultural studies. In four sections the volume presents essays that trace the engagement of post-theory with post-postmodernism, posth...

Download or read book The Folkloresque written by Michael Dylan Foster and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline. Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes—integration, portrayal, and parody—the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts. The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms. Contributors: Trevor J. Blank, Chad Buterbaugh, Bill Ellis, Timothy H. Evans, Michael Dylan Foster, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Greg Kelley, Paul Manning, Daniel Peretti, Gregory Schrempp, Jeffrey A. Tolbert

Download or read book Framing and Reframing written by Colin Rankin and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One way to chart an intersection between philosophical and literary discourses is by tracing lines of self-directed inquiry, in either discipline, that arrive at language as a limit condition for not only the articulation but the determination of conceptual frameworks. When attention is directed to discourse itself, it becomes increasing apparent that, to a certain degree, language is both bearer and generator of meaning, so a fundamentally self-reflexive concern with exposition attaches itself to its examinations. There are any number of entry points into how and where problems of linguistic expression announce themselves. After all, the possibilities and limits of language describe the contours of both disciplines from their outsets. For the present purposes, it is useful to choose moments where the disciplines are prompted to diverge from their traditional content to address their linguistic forms. In philosophy, Immanuel Kant's grand project of Critical Philosophy in the latter part of the eighteenth century marks a moment when the investigation of limits to knowledge comes up against a tangle of concerns with self, logic and mind-world division that creates an opening for the consideration of language in reframing/resolving some of its difficulties. In the latter part of the twentieth century, and from a wholly different direction, a preoccupation with linguistic mechanics is introduced into literary criticism and disrupts ideas about meaning and interpretation. In between these moments, linguistics and philosophy of language develop unavoidable contentions about the structures, instabilities and parameters of language, and these have direct implications for the status of meaningful determination in either discipline. The idea here is not to posit or trace the historical influence of linguistics on philosophy and literature but rather to examine various iterations of discourse that arrive at limits in language, whether in paradox or exhaustion, so as to investigate an overall dilemma in the determination of meaningful discourse, without recourse to sceptical or nihilistic suppositions. In the twentieth century, an increased consideration of language as potential bearer, generator and condition of meaning leans toward a logical positivism, carrying over the classical emphasis on essential structures of discourse and thought, but then away from this, into more rhetorical considerations of how language does or does not relate to the world. This latter shift is paralleled by an overall philosophical deemphasis, post-Kant, on essentialized logic and metaphysical 'ideas' that might 'ground' discourse, and so, in step with the rhetorical shift is a rise of scepticism toward determinate meaning: if there is no essential referent behind representations of and discourses about the world, then perhaps there is only an untethered chain of relative interpretations. Scepticism becomes a seductive, negative position that rejects the idea of objective reality in favor of interpretive relativity. In literary discourse, scepticism is tied to a linguistic formalism in which language is stripped of an essential, logically structured capacity for reference outside of itself- language bends into and disrupts itself. The modern-contemporary period exhibits continued debates between essentialist and sceptical notions of knowledge, reality and language, and the shift away from essence/logic and toward rhetorical methods manifests in a conflicting array of approaches to language that illustrate an overall sense of indeterminacy in discourse. Given the host of confusions that attend this scenario, it is understandable that intractable debates and dilemmas concerning the status of meaning and the parameters of interpretive practice inflect both philosophical and literary disciplines. With an aim to examining how such considerations of language affect literary theory and criticism, problematically, mistakenly, insightfully or otherwise, the effort here is to untangle lines of inquiry that reach toward various limits of language and assess how these frame ongoing discourse. Since the perceived (im)possibility of resolution or determination in literary-linguistic debates is precisely what perpetuates misunderstandings and dilemmas about the terms, stakes and parameters of discourse, the present, pragmatic examination is an attempt to clarify rather than contend; it is an attempt to clear out misconstrued, sometimes willfully obstructive ideas about the functions and capacities of language to expose the 'ground' of discourse- starting with the problematic influence of the Kantian model of self and knowledge that prefigures a modern linguistic turn in critical discourse.

Download or read book The Reframing of Realism written by Hazel Gold and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually every aspect of human behavior, ritual, language, and art, perceptions are organized through the act of framing. In the writing of Benito Perez Galdós, Spain's most prolific and innovative nineteenth-century novelist, Hazel Gold finds this principle insistently at work. By exploring Galdós's methods of structuring and evaluating literary and historical experience, Gold illuminates the novelist's art and uncovers the far-reaching narratological, social, and epistemological implications of his framing strategies. A close look at Galdós's novels reveals the artist at pains to contain and interpret what he perceived to be the distinctive and often disheartening experience of bourgeois liberalism of his day. At the same time, he can be seen here undermining or negating the accepted conventions of realist fiction. Looking beyond text to context, Gold examines the ways in which Galdós's work itself has been framed by readers and critics in accordance with changing allegiances to contemporary literary theory and the canon. The highly ambiguous status of the frame in Galdós's fictions confirms the author's own signal position as a writer poised at the limits between realism and modernity. Gold's work will command the interest of students of Spanish and comparative literature, narrative theory, and the novel, as well as all those for whom realism and representation are at issue.

Download or read book Postcultural Theory written by Eve Tavor Bannet and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of literary theory and criticism is once again at a crossroads. While much of the academy has been absorbing and institutionalizing that unstable mixture of poststructuralism, deconstruction, political critique and materialist historicism which is known as cultural theory, some people have been working up alternative theories. This book is about some of these less familiar postcultural theories, and about the ways in which they challenge current thinking and open other, positive and constructive, possibilities for thought and research in the Nineties.

Download or read book Theory post modernity Opposition written by Masʼud Zavarzadeh and published by Washington, D.C. : Maisonneuve Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a pedagogical theory that insists on the politicality of the cognitive. Available from Maisonneuve Press, PO Box 2980, Washington, DC 20013-2980. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR