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Author:   Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University, USA) ,  Daniel Robinson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.326kg
ISBN:  

9781138853270

ISBN 10:   1138853275
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Structure of the book and some caveats References Forms Matters of form in the twentieth century Terry Eagleton: the Marxist critic as public intellectual Fredric Jameson: committing to form and history Franco Moretti: maps, graphs, and distant reading Engaging with classic literature: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park Engaging with contemporary literature: Ian McEwan’s Atonement Engaging with film and new media: Austen on the big screen References Discourses Matters of discourse in modernity Jean Baudrillard: prophet of the postmodern Giorgio Agamben: a genealogy of biopolitics Rey Chow: entangling ethnicity, visuality, and language Engaging with classic literature: Emily Brontё’s Wuthering Heights Engaging with contemporary literature: Hari Kunzru’s White Tears Engaging with film and new media: Easy References Subjectivities and embodiments The birth of the subject Slavoj Žižek: theorizing with psychoanalysis and Marxism Judith Butler: beyond gender performativity Catherine Malabou: philosophy, plasticity, neuroscience Engaging with classic literature: Daniel Defoe’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Engaging with contemporary literature: Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch Engaging with film and new media: The Fall References Media, networks, machines Toward our contemporary media moment Jacques Rancière: aesthetics for everyone Bruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyond N. Katherine Hayles: defining the posthuman Engaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker’s Dracula Engaging with contemporary literature: Gwyneth Jones’s Proof of Concept Engaging with film and new media: Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther References Animals, affects, objects, environments We have never been human Donna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, Chthulucene Sara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoys Timothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontology Engaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Engaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation Engaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird References

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Evan Gottlieb is Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA.

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