Theory Matters The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today /

Theory Matters The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Middeke, Martin (Editor), Reinfandt, Christoph (Editor)
Summary:XII, 362 p.
text
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Aesthetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47428-5
Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: The Place of Theory Today; Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt
  • PART I: METATHEORY
  • 1. Comes the Revolution; J. Hillis Miller
  • 2. Literary Theory in Reverse: The Literariness of Theory; Gerold Sedlmayr
  • 3. Misreading Shelley, Misreading Theory: Deconstruction, Media, and Materiality; Christian Huck
  • 4. ‘I am, yet what I am’: Theory, Being and Dis-appearance; Julian Wolfreys
  • 5. Matter Against Materialism: Bruno Latour and the Turn to Objects; Benjamin Noys
  • 6. Avoiding Post-Structuralism at Its Root: Toward a New Theory; Dino Galetti
  • Interlude I: The Cultures of Reflexivity; Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt
  • PART II: CULTURAL THEORY
  • 7. The University: A Matter of Theoretical Importance; Thomas Docherty
  • 8. When Theory Is Not Enough: A Material Turn in Gender Studies; Ingrid Hotz-Davies
  • 9. Luhmann in da Contact Zone: Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Sociological Systems Theory; Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt
  • 10. Passive Voice: Democratic Indifference and the Vibrant Matter of Literature; Dirk Wiemann
  • 11. Managing Complexity: The “Literary Turn” in Organization Studies; Nicola Glaubitz
  • Interlude II: Ideologies of Habitus; Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt
  • PART III: CRITICAL THEORY
  • 12. Ecological Transformations of Critical Theory; Hubert Zapf
  • 13. The Literary Work as Ethical Event; Derek Attridge
  • 14. Ethics and Agency: The Limits and Necessity of Ethical Criticism; Sebastian Domsch
  • 15. The Art of Compearance: Ethics, (Reading) Literature, and the Coming Community; Martin Middeke
  • 16. Narrative Theory at the Limit; Richard Walsh
  • Interlude III: On Interpretation; Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt
  • PART IV: TEXTUAL THEORY
  • 17. The Fate of Texts under Changing Theory; Herbert Grabes
  • 18. Latour & Literature; David J. Alworth
  • 19. Reading Textures; Christoph Reinfandt
  • 20. Plato or Aristotle? Form and Textuality; Sukanta Chaudhuri
  • Coda: Theory Matters; Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt
  • Index.-.

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