Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Dr Julian Wolfreys (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

295 Seiten

2003
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-333-96059-2 (ISBN)

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This is a reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over 40 of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory. It a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics.

This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today.

Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory
- gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension.
- supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed
- offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address
- provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research

This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Victorian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Florida.

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Critical Keywords: Abjection.- Aesthetics.- Alterity.- Aporia.- Carnival/Carnivalesque.- Class.- Culture.- Deconstruction.- Desire.- Difference/Différance.- Discourse.- Event.- Gender.- Hegemony.- Hyperreality.- Hypertext.- I/dentity.- Ideology.- Imaginary-Symbolic-Real.- Interpellation.- Intertextuality.- Iterability/Iteration.- Jouissance.- Khora/Chora.- Literature.- Materialism/Materiality.- Modernism.- Myth/ology.- Narrative/Narration.- Other.- Overdetermination.- Performativity.- Postmodernity/Postmodernism.- Power.- Queer.- Race.- Reader/Reading.- Sexuality/Sexual Difference.- Simulacrum/Simulation.- Subject/ivity.- Uncanny.- Unconscious.- Writing.- Afterwords: Literary and Cultural Theory: The Contested Ground of Critical Language, or Terms, Concepts, and Motifs.- Works Cited.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.10.2003
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 295 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-333-96059-9 / 0333960599
ISBN-13	978-0-333-96059-2 / 9780333960592
Zustand	Neuware