New Critical Thinking - Criticism to Come (Electronic book text)

This book introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking. Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of 'theory' today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard 'isms': Literary Reading in a Digital Age; Critical Making in the Digital Humanities; Thing Theory; Memory Work and Criticism; Body, Objects, Technology; Criticism and 'The Animal'; Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study; Critical and Creative Practice: Conditions for Success in the Writing Workshop; Affect Theory; Spectrality; Critical Climate Change. A final rounding off chapter on Historicising presents debates around historically oriented criticism, including a 'round table' among the contributors. Each chapter also provides a critical 'case study' of a text or texts, including poetry writing guides, a Seamus Heaney poem, film adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, e-readers and kindles, First World War poetry and prose, steampunk, and Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways. From 'Thing Theory' to animal theory, multimodality to film adaptation, and from acts of reading in a digital age to the creative writing workshop, the volume reflects a radical reorientation in critical modes of thinking. It presents cutting-edge debates to advanced students in an engaging yet sophisticated way. It provides a wide range of 'case studies' including poetry, film, reading devices, popular fiction & non-fiction prose. It reflects newly emerging ways of teaching critical ideas in the classroom. It opens criticism to dialogue and possibility.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	Julian Wolfreys
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Electronic book text
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-7486-9964-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-7486-9964-3
Barcode:	9780748699643

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