Ten Lessons in Theory

A New Introduction to Theoretical Writing

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvCalvin Thomas,USA) Thomas, Professor Calvin (Georgia State University

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A thoroughly updated edition of the witty and engaging exploration of the history, application, and tenets of literary theory.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. Here 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.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.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 ThomasThe Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, edited by Jeffrey R. Di LeoThe Bloomsbury Handbook to 21st Century Feminist Theory, edited by Robin Truth Goodman

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-24
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
Upplaga2
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501383946

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Calvin Thomas is Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. His publications include Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2019), Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film (2008), Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (2000), and Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line (1996).

Prologue to the Second Edition: Bad Timing, Good TroublePreface to the Second Edition: "Something (still) worth reading": Theory and/as the Art of the SentenceIntroductory Matters: What Theory Does, Why Theory LivesPart 1. Antiphysis: Five Lessons in Textual AnthropogenesisLesson One: "The world must be made to mean"—or, in(tro)ducing the subject of human realityLesson Two: "Meaning is the polite word for pleasure"—or, how the beast in the nursery learns to readLesson Three: "Language is by nature fictional"—or, why the word for moonlight can't be moonlightLesson Four: "Desire must be taken literally"—a few words on death, sex, and interpretationLesson Five: "You are not yourself"—or, I (think, therefore I) is an otherPart 2. Extimacy: Five Lessons in the Utter Alterity of Absolute ProximityLesson Six: "This restlessness is us"—or, the least that can be said about HegelLesson Seven: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism"—or, the fates of literary formalismLesson Eight: "The unconscious is structured like a language"—or, invasions of the signifierLesson Nine: "There is nothing outside the text"—or, fear of the proliferation of meaningLesson Ten: "One is not born a woman"—on making the world queerer than everReference MattersIndex

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