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Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to illuminate the field.Evan Gottlieb contextualizes the latest developments with regard to forms; discourses; subjectivities and embodiments; media, networks, and machines; and animals, affects, objects, and environments. Each chapter elucidates its concepts through in-depth discussions of major contemporary theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, and Catherine Malabou, and uses engaging examples from a canonical novel, a contemporary text, and a new-media artifact to demonstrate theoretical applications. Additional text boxes regularly introduce emerging or overlooked theorists of interest, including Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai. An ideal guide for students of literary and critical theory, this book will give readers the background they need to continue their own explorations of this vibrant field of study.
Contents
Introduction Structure of the book and some caveats References Forms Matters of form in the twentieth century Terry Eagleton: the Marxist critic as public intellectual Fredric Jameson: committing to form and historyFranco Moretti: maps, graphs, and distant reading Engaging with classic literature: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Engaging with contemporary literature: Ian McEwan's Atonement Engaging with film and new media: Austen on the big screenReferences Discourses Matters of discourse in modernity Jean Baudrillard: prophet of the postmodern Giorgio Agamben: a genealogy of biopolitics Rey Chow: entangling ethnicity, visuality, and languageEngaging with classic literature: Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights Engaging with contemporary literature: Hari Kunzru's White TearsEngaging with film and new media: EasyReferencesSubjectivities and embodiments The birth of the subjectSlavoj Zizek: theorizing with psychoanalysis and MarxismJudith Butler: beyond gender performativityCatherine Malabou: philosophy, plasticity, neuroscienceEngaging with classic literature: Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson CrusoeEngaging with contemporary literature: Donna Tartt's The GoldfinchEngaging with film and new media: The Fall ReferencesMedia, networks, machinesToward our contemporary media momentJacques Ranciere: aesthetics for everyoneBruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyondN. Katherine Hayles: defining the posthumanEngaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker's DraculaEngaging with contemporary literature: Gwyneth Jones's Proof of ConceptEngaging with film and new media: Ryan Coogler's Black PantherReferencesAnimals, affects, objects, environmentsWe have never been humanDonna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, ChthuluceneSara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoysTimothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontologyEngaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley's FrankensteinEngaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer's AnnihilationEngaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird References
