Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. vi, 207 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. The New Critical Idiom is a series of introductory guides to current critical terminology. Each volume provides a guide to the use and abuse of terms related to literary studies with an accent on clarity and lively debate.

Series statement

1. The new critical idiom

Uniform title

1. New critical idiom

Subject

1. English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
2. English literature > Study and teaching
3. Interdisciplinary approach in education
4. 17.99 study of literature: other
5. English literature > Theory, etc
6. Anglistik
7. Englisch
8. Interdisziplinarität
9. Interdisziplinäre Forschung
10. Literatur
11. Literaturwissenschaft
12. Literatuurtheorie
13. Interdisciplinair onderzoek

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 1. Interdisciplinary English. The birth of English. Literature, life and thought. Leavis and the university. The cultural project of English. English in America. The fall of English -- 2. Literature into culture. Founding documents. The sociological turn. The culture of everyday life. Class and cultural capital. Cultural value and the knowledge class -- 3. Theory and the disciplines. Linguistics and literariness. Deconstructing philosophy. Psychoanalysis, language and culture. Feminism and the body. Queering the disciplines. Theory as metadiscipline -- 4. Texts in history. Literature and history. Marxism and culture. Knowledge and power. Textual historicities. Shakespeare and Englit -- 5. Science, space and nature.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.