Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory

• Main Author: Gottlieb, Evan
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Engagements with Literature
• Subjects: Agamben; Badiou; Bakhtin; Butler; Contemporary Theory; Critical Concepts; Critical Theory; Critical theory > History > 21st century; Criticism; Criticism > History > 21st century; Cultural Theory; Derrida; Evan Gottlieb; Foucault; Literary; Literary Theory; Literature; Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. > 21st century; Literature > Philosophy > 21st century; Routledge; Terry Eagleton; Theory; Zizek; Feminist Killjoy; Late Twentieth Century Western Culture; Dark Ecology; Homo Sacer; Contemporary Society; Queer Phenomenology; Animal Studies; Vice Versa; Nonhuman Turn; Cyborg Manifesto; English Trans; OOO; Mansfield Park; Free Indirect Discourse; Strange Stranger; Occupy Wall Street; Ethnic Spectator; Young Men; Distant Reading; Smart Phones; Wuthering Heights; Companion Species Manifesto; DH Work; Danai Gurira
• ISBN: 1138853267; 9781138853263; 9781138853270; 1138853275
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315722887

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to illuminate the field. Evan Gottlieb contextualizes the latest developments with regard to forms; discourses; subjectivities and embodiments; media, networks, and machines; and animals, affects, objects, and environments. Each chapter elucidates its concepts through in-depth discussions of major contemporary theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, and Catherine Malabou, and uses engaging examples from a canonical novel, a contemporary text, and a new-media artifact to demonstrate theoretical applications. Additional text boxes regularly introduce emerging or overlooked theorists of interest, including Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai. An ideal guide for students of literary and critical theory, this book will give readers the background they need to continue their own explorations of this vibrant field of study.