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Literary and cultural theory: a glossary of terms, concepts, and motifs

Literary and cultural theory: a glossary of terms, concepts, and motifs

Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-

This is a reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies, grappling with the array of complex concepts that constitute literary and cultural theory

Paperback, Hardback, Book. English.
Published Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002
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    Statement of responsibility: Julian Wolfreys
    ISBN: 0333960580, 0333960599, 9780333960585, 9780333960592
    Intended audience: Specialized.
    Physical Description: 224p. ; 24 cm.
    Subject: Criticism.; Culture Philosophy.; Literary Criticism; Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.

    Contents

    1. Preface
    2. Acknowledgements
    3. Critical Keywords
    4. Abjection
    5. Aesthetics
    6. Alterity
    7. Aporia
    8. Carnival/Carnivalesque
    9. Class
    10. Culture
    11. Deconstruction
    12. Desire
    13. Difference/Différance
    14. Discourse
    15. Event
    16. Gender
    17. Hegemony
    18. Hyperreality
    19. Hypertext
    20. I/dentity
    21. Ideology
    22. Imaginary-Symbolic-Real
    23. Interpellation
    24. Intertextuality
    25. Iterability/Iteration
    26. Jouissance
    27. Khora/Chora
    28. Literature
    29. Materialism/Materiality
    30. Modernism
    31. Myth/ology
    32. Narrative/Narration
    33. Other
    34. Overdetermination
    35. Performativity
    36. Postmodernity/Postmodernism
    37. Power
    38. Queer
    39. Race
    40. Reader/Reading
    41. Sexuality/Sexual Difference
    42. Simulacrum/Simulation
    43. Subject/ivity
    44. Uncanny
    45. Unconscious
    46. Writing
    47. Afterwords: Literary and Cultural Theory: The Contested Ground of Critical Language, or Terms, Concepts, and Motifs
    48. Works Cited
    49. Index

    Author note

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

    Description

    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.

    Reviews

    'For the adventure of a lifetime, pick a letter - any letter. Julian Wolfreys' Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory offers the most brilliant, generously conceived, and self-effacing invitation to roar and glide in literary and cultural theory I know. It is an anti-dictionary, increasing meaning rather than containing it, thus providing us with opportunities to explore rather than reasons to stop thinking. Look up 'class,' or 'queer,' or 'gender,' or 'writing,' or any other of the 43 terms, and you find yourself opening to a whole range of possibilities, a stimulating education you can conduct yourself. I know of no finer avenue into modern thought, wonderful both for new visitors and for those who imagine they know the terrain.' - James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California