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Global Literary Theory An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 041578302X

ISBN-13: 9780415783026

Edition: 2013

Authors: Richard J. Lane

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Global Literary Theory: An Anthology comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts, providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory.The volume is thoroughly introduced in the General Introduction and Section Introductions and each piece is contextualised within the wider sphere of global theory. Each section also includes annotated suggestions for further reading to help the reader navigate the extensive literature on each topic.The volume engages with the ‘internationalising’ of the curriculum as well as the globalization of literature and theory. Alongside these key themes, the volume also extends its coverage to include:The…    
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List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 944
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.96" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 3.916
Language: English

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Acknowledgements
General introduction
Formalism, structuralism
Art as Technique (1917)
The Method and the Material and the Functions of Dramatis Personae (1928)
Red as Blood, White as Snow, Black as Crow: Chromatic Symbolism of Womanhood in Fairy Tales (2007)
Nature of the Linguistic Sign (1913)
Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances (1971)
Myth Today (1957)
The Semiotic Activity (1997)
Deconstruction and poststructuralism
Derrida (2010)
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (1967)
Feminism and Deconstruction (1988)
Phenomenology And/As Deconstruction (2002)
Levinas and Laozi on the Deconstruction of Ethics (2007)
Genotext and Phenotext (1974)
Media, culture and postmodernism
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (Second Version) (1936)
"Time" Has Ceased, "Space" Has Vanished. We Now Live in a Global Village (1967)
Voices From the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production (1994)
Islam as News (1981)
Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India (1999)
Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism? (1979)
A Postmodern Introduction (1989)
The Precession of Simulacra (1981)
Surviving Postmodernism (1997)
Psychoanalysis and its critics
The Dream-Work (1900)
The "Uncanny" (1919)
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function, as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience (1949)
Jacques Lacan: Madness and the Risks of Theory (The Uses of Misprision) (1978)
Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge (1997)
The Machines (1972)
Hegel 1:Taking Deleuze From Behind (2004)
Marxism, critical theory and new historicism
The Commodity (1867)
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944)
Mass Culture as Big Business (1990)
Carnival and the Grotesque Body (1997)
N: on the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress (1982)
The Potato in the Materialist Imagination (2000)
What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture (2003)
Race and ethnicity
The Fact of Blackness (1952)
The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(G): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning (1988)
"Not a Story to Pass On": Living Memory and the Slave Sublime (1993)
The Complex Face of Black Canada (1997)
The Future of (The) "Race": Identity, Discourse and the Rise of Computer-Mediated Public Spheres (2008)
Race, Colonialism and History: China at the turn of the Twentieth Century (2002)
Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective (2004)
Postcolonial studies
The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma (1990)
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1999)
Orientalism Now (1979)
Of Mimicry and Man: the Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse (1994)
The African Writer and the English Language (1975)
Locating and Celebrating Difference: Writing By South African and Aboriginal Women Writers (1999)
Godzilla Vs. Post-Colonial (1990)
Gender and queer theory
From Interiority to Gender Performatives (1990)
The Melancholic Double Bind (1999)
Scientia Sexualis (1976)
Epist Temology of the Closet (1990)
Butterfly Kiss: The Contagious Kiss of Becoming-Lesbian (2009)
"My Spirit in My Heart": Identity Experiences and Challenges Among American Indian Two-Spirit Women (2006)
Feminism
The Blind Spot of an Old Dream (1974)
Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays (1975)
Infection in the Sentence: the Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship (1979)
"Women of Colour": Writers and Feminist Theory (1994)
Slaying the Dragon Lady: Toward an Asian American Feminism (1997)
African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation (1995)
Arab Women's Literary History (2001)
New textualities
Why Disease and Opera? (1996)
Theatre and the Autobiographical Pact (2006)
Travel Writing at the Millennium (2003)
Heading Off the Trail: Language, Literature, and Nature's Resistance to Narrative (2001)
Des Tours De Babel (1985)
Hypertheology (1999)
Western Identity the Exhaustion of Secular Reason, and the Return of Religion (2010)
Subtraction, Jewish and Christian (2003)
Digital Humanities and Electronic Texts (2009)
Imagining the Manuscript and Printed Book in a Digital Age (2010)
The Internet in China: Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions (2004)
Globalization and global studies
Literary Studies and Globalization (2009)
From Development to Globalization: Postcolonial Studies and Globalization Theory (2004)
Is the World Decentred? A Postcolonial Perspective on Globalization (2006)
Islam in the Age of Postmodernity (1994)
The Location of Literature: the Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer (2006)
Bibliography
Index