The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments List of Ccontributors Introduction: Theory in the New Millennium Notes Works Cited Part 1: Essays Chapter 1: Early Theory Notes Works Cited Chapter 2: Structuralism and Semiotics Notes Works Cited Chapter 3: Narrative and Narratology Notes Works Cited Chapter 4: Marxism Notes Works Cited Chapter 5: Post-Structuralism Notes Works Cited Chapter 6: Historicisms Notes Works Cited Chapter 7: Psychoanalytic Theory Notes Works Cited Chapter 8: Rhetoric Notes Works Cited Chapter 9: Deconstruction Notes Works Cited Chapter 10: Feminism Waiving the Waves She Came to Stay The Wild Woman Notes Works Cited Chapter 11: Cultural Studies One Two Three Four Five Notes Works Cited Chapter 12: Postmodernism Modernism and Postmodernism as a Historical Period or Style Modernism and Postmodernism as Cultural Dominant; or Postmodernism and Capitalism Postmodernism and/as “the Linguistic Turn”: Postmodernism as Theory Post-Postmodernism and the Returns of Essentialist Realism Notes Works Cited Chapter 13: Race and Postcolonial Studies Is Cultural Resistance still Resistant? Neoliberalism’s New Normal Understanding, Liberation, Difference Notes Works Cited Chapter 14: Ecocriticism Notes Works Cited Chapter 15: Biopower and Biopolitics The “Deployment” (dispositif) of Sexuality (1976) The Government of the Living: The Birth of Biopolitics (1978–1979) The Major Mutations of the Concept of Biopower (1984–): Deleuze and Agamben Notes Works Cited Chapter 16: Pop Culture Plastic Man, Where Are You? Notes Works Cited Chapter 17: Comparativisms Notes Works Cited Chapter 18: Comparativisms One Two Three Four Notes Works Cited Chapter 19: Media Studies Introduction History Approaches New Directions The Future Notes Works Cited Chapter 20: Digital Humanities Notes Works Cited Chapter 21: Late Capitalism New Forms of Alienation and Isolation Donald Trump's Media Strategy Beyond Disimagination Machines Notes Works Cited Chapter 22: Identity Studies Notes Works Cited Chapter 23: Materialisms Understanding Materialism and Materiality New Meaterialisms Speculative Realism Coda: The Future of Contemporary Materialisms Notes Works Cited Chapter 24: Posthumanism The Persistence of the Human Science, Transhumanism, and The Rise of The Cyborg (Re)Turning to The Animal Human Or Posthuman?: Yes, Please! Notes Works Cited Chapter 25: University Studies The Rise of Critical University Studies The Tradition of Radical Criticism of Higher Education Touchstones and New Challenges of University Studies Notes Works Cited Chapter 26: Affect Studies Affect and Queer Theory Affect and Materialism Affect and the Present Notes Works Cited Chapter 27: Antitheory Notes Works Cited Part 2: Terms and Figures A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Name Index Subject Index The Bloomsbury handbook of literary and cultural theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels. -- Back cover