Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century

• Main Author: Wolfreys, Julian
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2015
• Edition: 2
• Subjects: 20th century; Criticism; History; LITERARY CRITICISM; Twenty-first century

Provides a wide-ranging guide to current directions in literary criticism This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century. The chapters provide thought-provoking overviews of critical thinking at t...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- INTRODUCING CRITICISM IN THE 21st CENTURY -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENTS, DEBATES, DEPARTURES, DIFFERENCES, DIRECTIONS -- 1 THE WRITINGS OF INTIMACY: THEORIES OF AFFECT, EMOTION AND RELATIONALITY -- 2 GENDER AND TRANSGENDER CRITICISM -- 3 LOVE AND THE OTHER: THE EXAMPLE OF GIORGIO AGAMBEN -- 4 CRITICAL COMPANIONS: DERRIDA, HARAWAY AND OTHER ANIMALS -- 5 ETHICAL CRITICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL TURN -- 6 LEVINAS AND CRITICISM: ETHICS IN THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CRITICISM -- 7 ECOCRITICISM -- 8 CRITICAL MAKING IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES -- 9 (A)MATERIAL CRITICISM -- 10 DELEUZEAN CRITICISM -- 11 AFFECT THEORY -- 12 SPACE AND PLACE IN CRITICAL READING -- 13 TRAUMA, TESTIMONY, CRITICISM: WITNESSING, MEMORY AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 14 MEMORY AND MEMORY WORK -- Notes on Contributors -- INDEX