Using key passages to understand literature, theory and culture
"An Introduction to Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts. It focuses on the key concepts that help readers understand literature and cultural event...
| Main Author: | Laga, Barry, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
vi, 246 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Becoming a subject
- Scripting identity
- Doing not describing
- Enjoying the carnivalesque
- Reading as writing
- Simulating the real
- Creating a space between
- Performing gender
- Locating trauma
- Intersecting identities
- Locating alterity
- Poaching texts
- Cultivating rhizomes
- Reconciling double consciousness
- Shocking readers
- Joining power and knowledge
- Revealing the uncanny
- Questioning human/non-human boundaries
- Historicizing and contextualizing
- Signifying through time
- Thinking ecologically
- Recognizing conceptual metaphors
- Representing disability
- Losing and recovering our sovereignty
- Resisting the dominant culture
- Adapting and appropriating
- Describing homosocial relationships
- Defamiliarizing the familiar
- Questioning gender binaries
- Building on another's work : identifying key concepts.