Weak Theory, Weak Modernism

One aim of this special issue, then, is to bring together work that explores the ramifications of the new modesty and a certain subset of queer methods in and for modernist studies in particular. Another is to advance debates about post-critique by moving past some of the brittler binarisms—paranoid...

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Published inModernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 437 - 459
Main Author Saint-Amour, Paul K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.09.2018
Subjects
Aesthetics
African American literature
Alternatives
Ambiguity
Collaboration
Contemporary literature
Dictators
Disability studies
Ecofeminism
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Gender
Ideology
LGBTQ studies
Literary canon
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary translation
Logic
Modernism
Pedagogy
Postcolonialism
Reading
Semantics
Theory
Writers
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Summary:One aim of this special issue, then, is to bring together work that explores the ramifications of the new modesty and a certain subset of queer methods in and for modernist studies in particular. Another is to advance debates about post-critique by moving past some of the brittler binarisms—paranoid versus reparative, depth versus surface, close versus distant, critique versus description—on which those debates run aground. We do so by shifting the focus of the debate to weak theory, a loose parcel of concepts and heuristics that mostly antedate post-critique, and only some of which have since become associated with it.
ISSN:1071-6068
1080-6601
1080-6601
DOI:10.1353/mod.2018.0035