A thoroughly updated edition of the witty and engaging exploration
of the history, application, and tenets of literary theory in ten
lessons. The first edition of Ten Lessons served as a
“literary” introduction to theoretical writing, a strong set of
pedagogical prose poems unpacking Lacanian psychoanalysis,
continental philosophy, Marxism, cultural studies, feminism, gender
studies, and queer theory. Calvin Thomas returns to these ten
“lessons,” each based on an axiomatic sentence selected from
the canons of theory, each exploring the basic assumptions and
motivations of theoretical writing. But while every lesson explains
the working terms and core tenets of theory, each also attempts to
exemplify theory as a “liberatory practice” (bell hooks), to
liberate theory as a “practice of creativity” (Foucault) in and
of itself. Features: - Critical keywords bolded for easy reference
- Expanded footnotes with detailed discussion of key concepts -
Anti-racist overhaul of each lesson in the wake of Trumpism, Black
Lives Matter, and #MeToo - Urgent emphasis on Afropessimism,
critical race theory, and other developments in postcolonial Black
cultural production - Designed to cross-reference with: Adventures
in Theory: A Compact Anthology, edited by Calvin Thomas The
Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, edited by
Jeffrey R. Di Leo The Bloomsbury Handbook to 21st Century Feminist
Theory, edited by Robin Truth Goodman The revised, updated, and
expanded second edition, featuring 25% new material, still argues
for theoretical writing as a genre of creative writing, a way of
engaging in the art of the sentence, the art of making sentences
that make trouble, that desire to make radical changes in very
fabrication of social reality.
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