New Critical Thinking

Criticism to Come
Herausgeber: Wolfreys, Julian

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Produktbeschreibung

*APPROVED* Interdisciplinary collection exploring the inseparability of 'theory' and 'practice' in critical thinking New Critical Thinking introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about criticism and offers new approaches to interdisciplinary reading. The twelve chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard 'isms' and offer a timely intervention in the debate around the crisis in the humanities, in the understanding and reassessment of the idea of modernity as well as the need for a return to close reading. Each essay starts from a dual premise: the personal experience of reading and the necessity of beginning any critical act through a close reading of that text, however theoretically informed the reading may be. New Critical Thinking resists the conventions of assigning a single theory to a given act of reading; instead, it reintroduces the significance of transforming critical engagement through a challenging, adventurous series of arguments that question implicitly the institutional status quo of the critical act, while imagining a criticism to come that exceeds the programmed work of the mechanical application of literary theory. Key Features . Presents cutting-edge debates for more advanced students in an engaging and sophisticated way . Provides a wide range of 'case studies' including poetry, film, reading devices, popular fiction and non-fiction prose . Reflects newly emerging ways of teaching critical ideas in the classroom . Opens criticism to dialogue and possibility Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of more than 40 books on literary theory and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British Literature. His most recent publications are two collections of poetry, Draping the Sky for a Snowfall (2016) and The Grand European Bestiary (2016). Cover image: Julian Wolfreys Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN (cover): 978-0-7486-9964-3 ISBN (PPC): 978-0-7486-9966-7 Barcode s

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780748699643
• ISBN-10: 0748699643
• Artikelnr.: 43758398

Autorenporträt

Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in LIterature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens's London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Critical Thinking
to Read so as to Become Acquainted
Julian Wolfreys; 1. Turnings and Re-Turnings
Mary Ann Caws; 2. 'Peering into the dark machinery': Modernity
Perception
and the Self in John Burnside's Poetry
Monika Szuba; 3. Modernity's Sylvan Subjectivity
from Gainsborough to Gallaccio
Catherine Bernard; 4. Little Did They Know: Toward an Experiential Approach
Sarah Pardon; 5. 'The Heart cannot forget / Unless it contemplates / What it declines': Emily Dickinson
Frank Ankersmit
and the Art of Forgetting
Páraic Finnerty; 6. Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning
Anton Froeyman; 7. Writing Fiction
Making History: Historical Narrative and the Process of Creating History
Christine Berberich; 8. Witnessing
Recognition
and Response Ethics
Kelly Oliver; 9. A Norwegian Abroad: Camilla Collett's Travelogues from Berlin to Paris
Tone Selboe; 10. Alfred Jarry's Nietzschean Modernism
Jean-Michel Rabaté; 11. On First Looking into Derrida's Glas
J. Hillis Miller; 12. 'A very black and little Arab Jew': Experience and Experimentation or
Two Words for Jacques Derrida
Julian Wolfreys.