Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350564138ISBN-10:1350564133UPC:9781350564138Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Reference, Semiotics & TheorySize:9.61 x 7.50 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.9908Product ID:SCR4TY5TGX
The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key topics across 15 chapters, it provides an approachable and encyclopedic introduction to the most important areas of contemporary theory today.
Proceeding broadly chronologically from early theory all the way through to postcritique, Di Leo masterfully unpacks established topics such as psychoanalysis, structuralism and Marxism, as well as newer topics such as trans* theory, animal studies, disability studies, blue humanities, speculative realism and many more. Featuring accessible discussion of the work of foundational theorists such as Lacan, Derrida and Freud as well as contemporary theorists such as Haraway, Braidotti and Hayles, it offers a magisterial examination of an enormously rich and varied body of work.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350564138ISBN-10:1350564133UPC:9781350564138Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Reference, Semiotics & TheorySize:9.61 x 7.50 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.9908Product ID:SCR4TY5TGX
JEFFREY R. DI LEO is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications include The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What's Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Vinyl Theory (2020), Happiness (2023), Selling the Humanities (2023), Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education (2024), Out of Print (2024), and Theory as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2025).
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