How do they critique our increasing focus on consumption? In what ways do they hold a mirror to our taken-for-granteds about food and humanity, asking if what we eat truly matters? Horror narratives routinely grasp those questions and spin them into nightmares. Overindulgence, as Le Grande Bouffe and Street Trash warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like The Stuff and Poultrygeist illustrate, our food fights back. The book explores key South Asian writings on cultural theory and literary criticism.
It discusses the dynamics of textual contents, rhetorical styles, and socio-political issues through an exploration of seminal South Asian scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The volume examines concepts and methods of critical studies.
It also discusses colonial and postcolonial discourses on art, religion, nationalism, identity, representation, resistance, and gender in the South Asian context.
The essays are accompanied by textual questions and intertextual discussions on rhetorical, creative, and critical aspects of the selected texts. The exercise questions invite the reader to explore the mechanics of reading about and writing on discursive pieces in South Asian studies.
Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this textbook will be indispensable for students and researchers of South Asian studies, cultural theory, literary criticism, postcolonial studies, literary and language studies, women and gender studies, rhetoric and composition, political sociology, and cultural studies.
The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel.
Together, these works—by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory.
Theory, as the many theoretical ism's among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular.
This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.
Newly discovered letters by Lewis Carroll, an expanded selection of diary excerpts, and a wealth of new biographical materials are some of the features of this revised Norton Critical Edition.
Each text is fully annotated and the original illustrations are included. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century covers such issues as: The institutional history of theory in the academy The case against theory, from the s to today Critical reading, theory and the wider world Keystone works in contemporary When inthe mids I signed on as general editor of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , I did so primarily in order to consolidate inadurable way andwithmaximumimpactthe many changes inthefieldofcriticism The book also highlights the current reconfiguration of critical reading and its potential future.
Norton and Company , , pp. Leitch , Vincent , B. Coverage is from earliest times to the present , but this volume is eight times the length of the pioneer theory readers of the s. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ranciere continue to be central to literary studies.
Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the explosion of new theoretical approaches that has seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in the institutional settings of the humanities today.
Literary Criticism in the 21st Century covers such issues as: The institutional history of theory in the academy The case against theory, from the s to today Critical reading, theory and the wider world Keystone works in contemporary theory New directions and theory's many futures Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
New selections from non-western theory and a thoroughly updated twentieth century selection make the book even more diverse and authoritative. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Front Cover.
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