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Goethes Faust (Hardcover)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Calvin Thomas
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R1,072
Discovery Miles 10 720
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The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort
the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that
creative practice called "theory" is to disturb everyone-to
perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed
understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the
typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, Adventures in Theory
offers a manageably short collection of writings that have famously
enacted the central purpose of theory. Adventures in Theory takes
readers on a steadily unsettling tour, spanning the most
significant thought provocations in the history of theoretical
writing from Marx and Nietzsche through Foucault and Derrida to
Butler, Zizek, and Edelman. Engagingly lean and enjoyably mean,
this is a minimalist anthology with maximal impact.
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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Breathless (Paperback)
Calvin Thomas; Cover design or artwork by D L Murdock
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R422
Discovery Miles 4 220
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Breathless (Paperback)
Calvin Thomas; Cover design or artwork by D L Murdock
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R608
Discovery Miles 6 080
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Goethe (Hardcover)
Calvin Thomas
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R1,035
Discovery Miles 10 350
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