Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories : Thought on the Edge

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Label

Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories : Thought on the Edge

Title remainder

Thought on the Edge

Statement of responsibility

edited by Nicoletta Pireddu

Contributor

• Pireddu, Nicoletta

Subject

• Comparative literature
• Comparative literature
• Critical theory
• Critical theory
• Culture
• Culture
• Culture -- Study and teaching
• Culture -- Study and teaching
• Electronic books
• Literature -- Philosophy
• Literature -- Philosophy

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged "death of theory" and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the "finitude" of theoretical projects does not mean "end", but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines. Contributors from different cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents propose new areas of investigation and interpretive possibilities, reopening dialogues with past and present discourses from a plurality of perspectives and locations. After a first section that reassesses the status and scopes of critique, theory, and literature, the book foregrounds new or neglected critical vocabulary, literary paradigms, and narrative patterns to reread texts at the intersection with other branches of the humanities--history, philosophy, religion, and pedagogy. It then explores geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological domains that have been historically and ideologically overdetermined (such as postsocialist, postcolonial, and cosmopolitan spaces), recodifying them as unstable sites of both conflicts and convergences. By acknowledging the spatio-temporal and cultural delimitations of any intellectual practice, the book creates awareness of our own partiality and incompleteness, but treats boundaries as zones of contact, exchange, and conceptual mobility that promote crossings and connections

Cataloging source

VT2

Dewey number

306.01

Index

no index present

LC call number

HM623

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries