Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism

Author:   Barry Laga
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138561977


Pages:   246
Publication Date:   01 October 2018
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Author:   Barry Laga
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781138561977


ISBN 10:   1138561975
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   01 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Joining the Community 1. Becoming a Subject 2. Scripting Identity 3. Doing Not Describing 4. Enjoying the Carnivalesque 5. Reading as Writing 6. Simulating the Real 7. Creating a Space Between 8. Performing Gender 9. Locating Trauma 10. Intersecting Identities 11. Locating Alterity 12. Poaching Texts 13. Cultivating Rhizomes 14. Reconciling Double Consciousness 15. Shocking Readers 16. Joining Power and Knowledge 17. Revealing the Uncanny 18. Questioning Human/Nonhuman Boundaries 19. Historicizing and Contextualizing 20. Signifying Through Time 21. Thinking Ecologically 22. Recognizing Conceptual Metaphors 23. Representing Disability 24. Losing and Recovering Our Sovereignty 25. Resisting the Dominant Culture 26. Adapting and Appropriating 27. Describing Homosocial Relationships 28. Defamiliarizing the Familiar 29. Questioning Gender Binaries 30. Building on Another’s Work: Identifying Key Concepts; Index

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Barry Laga is Professor of English and Department Head of Languages, Literature, and Mass Communication at Colorado Mesa University, USA. He teaches literary theory, American literature, film, and composition, and publishes on American literature, film, and cultural studies. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and Universität Leipzig, Germany.

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