Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century

Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century
Title Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century PDF eBook
Author Julian Wolfreys
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 320
Release 2015-03-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0748695311

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This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century.

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
Title Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook
Author Stephanie LeMenager
Publisher Routledge
Pages 301
Release 2011-05-09
Genre Nature
ISBN 1136710515

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Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. With contributors engaging texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, the collection brings into focus recent ecocritical concern for the long durations through which environmental imaginations have been shaped. Contributors also address problems of scale, including environmental institutions and imaginations that complicate conventional rubrics such as the national, local, and global. Finally, this collection brings together a set of scholars who are interested in drawing on both the sciences and the humanities in order to find compelling stories for engaging ecological processes such as global climate change, peak oil production, nuclear proliferation, and food scarcity. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century offers powerful proof that cultural criticism is itself ecologically resilient, evolving to meet the imaginative challenges of twenty-first-century environmental crises.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Title Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook
Author Stephen Kaufmann
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 97
Release 2017-08-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1784786160

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An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm—as well as intense criticism—in a way no other economic or sociological work has in a long time. Piketty has been described as a new Karl Marx and placed in the same league as the economist John Maynard Keynes. The “rock star economist’s” underlying thesis is that inequality under capitalism has reached dramatic levels in the last few decades and continues to grow—and that this is not by chance. A small elite is making itself richer and richer and acquiring everincreasing levels of power. Given the sensational reception of Piketty’s not-so-easily digested 800-page study, the question as to where the hype around the book comes from deserves to be asked. What does it get right? And what should we make of it—both of the book itself and of the criticism it has received? This introduction lays out the argument of Piketty’s monumental work in a compact and understandable format, while also investigating the controversies Piketty has stirred up. In addition, the two authors demonstrate the limits, contradictions and errors of the so-called Piketty revolution.

Theory After Theory

Theory After Theory
Title Theory After Theory PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Birns
Publisher Broadview Press
Pages 346
Release 2010-06-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1770482539

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Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture. Accessible but rigorous, this book provides a wealth of historical and intellectual context that allows the reader to make sense of the movements in recent literary theory.

Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Title Twenty-First-Century Fiction PDF eBook
Author Peter Boxall
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 277
Release 2013-06-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107244498

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The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament – one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century.

Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

Literary Criticism in the 21st Century
Title Literary Criticism in the 21st Century PDF eBook
Author Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 194
Release 2014-08-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1472531825

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For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ranciere continue to be central to literary studies. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the explosion of new theoretical approaches that has seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in the institutional settings of the humanities today. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century covers such issues as: The institutional history of theory in the academy The case against theory, from the 1970s to today Critical reading, theory and the wider world Keystone works in contemporary theory New directions and theory's many futures Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

After Foucault

After Foucault
Title After Foucault PDF eBook
Author Lisa Downing
Publisher
Pages 221
Release 2018-06-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107140498

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Contributes to Foucauldian scholarship by contextualizing Foucault's key concepts and identifying current and emerging applications of his work.