Weak Theory, Weak Modernism

• Published in: Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 437 - 459
• Main Author: Saint-Amour, Paul K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...