Description

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth, value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset of the new century. This volume presents the various suggestions and concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities of the contemporary social and cultural life. The book is a source of reference to develop an understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach to the current problems worldwide, their representations in literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction
Zekiye Antakyalioglu
Part I: Changing Climates in Theory and Criticism
Chapter One: A Liberal Humanism for the Twenty-First Century?
Cian Duffy
Chapter Two: The Ethical Turn: Return of Empathy
Aytül Özüm
Chapter Three: The Microfascistic Turn and the Question of Sympathy in the 21st Century
Rahime Çokay Nebioglu
Chapter Four: Enjoy Your Theory! Post-Lacanian, Psychoanalytical Approaches to Literature and Culture
Aylin Alkaç
Chapter Five: Does Postcolonial Still Have Relevance?
Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Part II: Post-(Humanist)-Theories
Chapter Six: A Reconsideration of Subjectivity? Lacan's Response to Posthumanism
Nurten Birlik
Chapter Seven: From Theory to Literature: Posthumanism as a Post-Theoretical Endeavour
Basak Agin
Chapter Eight: The Rhizome d'être of Posthumanism and the Question of Ethics: Revisiting Braidotti with Agamben
Zekiye Antakyalioglu
Chapter Nine: The Posthuman Turn: 21st Century Variations of Feminism
Ela Ipek Gündüz
Chapter Ten: Re

Product details

Published Apr 25 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 286
ISBN 9781666913873
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 10 tables;
Dimensions 227 x 161 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Zekiye Antakyalioglu

Contributor

Basak Agin

Contributor

Aylin Alkaç

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Nurten Birlik

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Ivan Callus

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Cian Duffy

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Mesut Günenç

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Enes Kavak

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Meltem Muslu

Contributor

Bran Nicol

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Aytül Özüm

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Emrah Peksoy

Contributor

Seda Sen

Contributor

Cenk Tan

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