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"Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies presents a wide-ranging and impressive collection of essays which, while respecting the legacy of Theory, seeks - and explores - ways to go beyond Theory by taking us into what one might call the realm of the ""post"" that of ""post-postmodernism"", ""post-translation studies"", ""post-humanism"", ""post-Lacanian psychoanalysis"", ""post-philology"" and other and similar reorientations that build upon the achievement of Theory and yet offer new and promising directions for literary and cultural studies. --Hans Bertens, Utrecht University With its finger firmly on the pulse, this wide-ranging volume provides fresh perspectives on the condition of literary and cultural theory in our critical present. It opens by endorsing Braidotti's recent exclamation that 'Theory is back!', as reflected in engaging with the posthumanistic ideas of Deleuze and of Lacan. Potentially allied to this, ecocritical theories have achieved here an urgent currency. But the volume as a whole, wisely never allows theory to be pigeon-holed as a canonical set of writers or ideas. We are shown multiple routes - posthumanist, literary, philological - into and out of our situation. This diversity is stylishly introduced and cogently arranged via the skillful editing of Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu. She and the contributors have produced an important reflection on these critical times. --Finn Fordham, Royal Holloway, University of London"

"Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies presents a wide-ranging and impressive collection of essays which, while respecting the legacy of Theory, seeks - and explores - ways to go beyond Theory by taking us into what one might call the realm of the ""post"" that of ""post-postmodernism"", ""post-translation studies"", ""post-humanism"", ""post-Lacanian psychoanalysis"", ""post-philology"" and other and similar reorientations that build upon the achievement of Theory and yet offer new and promising directions for literary and cultural studies.--Hans Bertens, Utrecht University With its finger firmly on the pulse, this wide-ranging volume provides fresh perspectives on the condition of literary and cultural theory in our critical present. It opens by endorsing Braidotti's recent exclamation that 'Theory is back!', as reflected in engaging with the posthumanistic ideas of Deleuze and of Lacan. Potentially allied to this, ecocritical theories have achieved here an urgent currency. But the volume as a whole, wisely never allows theory to be pigeon-holed as a canonical set of writers or ideas. We are shown multiple routes - posthumanist, literary, philological - into and out of our situation. This diversity is stylishly introduced and cogently arranged via the skillful editing of Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu. She and the contributors have produced an important reflection on these critical times.--Finn Fordham, Royal Holloway, University of London"

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies presents a wide-ranging and impressive collection of essays which, while respecting the legacy of Theory, seeks - and explores - ways to go beyond Theory by taking us into what one might call the realm of the post that of post-postmodernism , post-translation studies , post-humanism , post-Lacanian psychoanalysis , post-philology and other and similar reorientations that build upon the achievement of Theory and yet offer new and promising directions for literary and cultural studies.--Hans Bertens, Utrecht University With its finger firmly on the pulse, this wide-ranging volume provides fresh perspectives on the condition of literary and cultural theory in our critical present. It opens by endorsing Braidotti's recent exclamation that 'Theory is back!', as reflected in engaging with the posthumanistic ideas of Deleuze and of Lacan. Potentially allied to this, ecocritical theories have achieved here an urgent currency. But the volume as a whole, wisely never allows theory to be pigeon-holed as a canonical set of writers or ideas. We are shown multiple routes - posthumanist, literary, philological - into and out of our situation. This diversity is stylishly introduced and cogently arranged via the skillful editing of Zekiye Antakyaliog lu. She and the contributors have produced an important reflection on these critical times.--Finn Fordham, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu is professor and chair of English Literature at Gaziantep University, Turkey.

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