New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come

Julian Wolfreys

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

New Critical Thinking

Criticism to Come

Julian Wolfreys

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748699674

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About this book

Introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking

Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of ‘theory’ today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard ‘isms’: Literary Reading in a Digital Age; Critical Making in the Digital Humanities; Thing Theory; Memory Work and Criticism; Body, Objects, Technology; Criticism and ‘The Animal’; Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study; Critical and Creative Practice: Conditions for Success in the Writing Workshop; Affect Theory; Spectrality; Critical Climate Change.

A final rounding off chapter on Historicising presents debates around historically oriented criticism, including a ‘round table’ among the contributors. Each chapter also provides a critical ‘case study’ of a text or texts, including poetry writing guides, a Seamus Heaney poem, film adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, e-readers and kindles, First World War poetry and prose, steampunk, and Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways.

From ‘Thing Theory’ to animal theory, multimodality to film adaptation, and from acts of reading in a digital age to the creative writing workshop, the volume reflects a radical reorientation in critical modes of thinking.

Key Features:

Presents cutting-edge debates presented to more advanced students in an engaging yet sophisticated way
Provides a wide range of ‘case studies’ including poetry, film, reading devices, popular fiction & non-fiction prose
Reflects newly emerging ways of teaching critical ideas in the classroom
Opens criticism to dialogue and possibility

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: New Critical Thinking – To Read so as to Become Acquainted Julian Wolfreys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Turnings and Re-Turnings Mary Ann Caws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 ‘Peering into the dark machinery’: Modernity, Perception and the Self in John Burnside’s Poetry Monika Szuba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 Modernity’s Sylvan Subjectivity, from Gainsborough to Gallaccio Catherine Bernard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4 Little Did They Know: Toward an Experiential Approach to the Theory of History Sarah Pardon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
5 ‘The Heart cannot forget / Unless it contemplate / What it declines’: Emily Dickinson, Frank Ankersmit and the Art of Forgetting Páraic Finnerty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
6 Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning Anton Froeyman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7 Writing Fiction, Making History: Historical Narrative and the Process of Creating History Christine Berberich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8 Witnessing, Recognition and Response Ethics Kelly Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
9 A Norwegian Abroad: Camilla Collett’s Travelogues from Berlin and Paris Tone Selboe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
10 Alfred Jarry’s Nietzschean Modernism Jean-Michel Rabaté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
11 On First Looking into Derrida’s Glas J. Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
12 ‘A very black and little Arab Jew’: Experience and Experimentation or, Two Words for Jacques Derrida Julian Wolfreys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 28, 2017
ISBN: 9780748699674