Edinburgh University Press
New Critical Thinking
About this book
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Contributors
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Introduction: New Critical Thinking – To Read so as to Become Acquainted
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1 Turnings and Re-Turnings
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2 ‘Peering into the dark machinery’: Modernity, Perception and the Self in John Burnside’s Poetry
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3 Modernity’s Sylvan Subjectivity, from Gainsborough to Gallaccio
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4 Little Did They Know: Toward an Experiential Approach to the Theory of History
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5 ‘The Heart cannot forget / Unless it contemplate / What it declines’: Emily Dickinson, Frank Ankersmit and the Art of Forgetting
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6 Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning
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7 Writing Fiction, Making History: Historical Narrative and the Process of Creating History
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8 Witnessing, Recognition and Response Ethics
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9 A Norwegian Abroad: Camilla Collett’s Travelogues from Berlin and Paris
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10 Alfred Jarry’s Nietzschean Modernism
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11 On First Looking into Derrida’s Glas
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12 ‘A very black and little Arab Jew’: Experience and Experimentation or, Two Words for Jacques Derrida
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