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9780748699643: New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come (Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights)
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ISBN 10: 0748699643 ISBN 13: 9780748699643
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

Sinopsis

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 Brontë’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. Key Features: Presents cutting-edge debates presented to more advanced students in an engaging yet sophisticated wayProvides a wide range of ‘case studies’ including poetry, film, reading devices, popular fiction & non-fiction proseReflects newly emerging ways of teaching critical ideas in the classroomOpens criticism to dialogue and possibility

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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.

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*APPROVED*Interdisciplinary collection exploring the inseparability of ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ in critical thinkingNew 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 possibilityJulian 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 WolfreysCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN (cover): 978-0-7486-9964-3ISBN (PPC): 978-0-7486-9966-7Barcodes

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*APPROVED*Interdisciplinary collection exploring the inseparability of theory and practice in critical thinkingNew 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 possibilityJulian 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 WolfreysCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN (cover): 978-0-7486-9964-3ISBN (PPC): 978-0-7486-9966-7Barcodes

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Edinburgh University Press
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
0748699643
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9780748699643
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224
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Wolfreys Julian
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