The Geocritical Legacies Of Edward W Said

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137487208
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.

Author : Pannian Prasad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137543590
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity written by Pannian Prasad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the notion of subjectivity implicated in and articulated by Said in his writings. Analyzing several of his major works, Pannian argues that there is a shift in Said's intellectual trajectory that takes place after the composition of Orientalism. In so doing, Said forthrightly attempts to retrieve a theoretical and political humanism, as Pannian identifies, despite the difficult and sanguinary aspects of its past. He elaborates upon Said's understanding that only after recognising the structures of violence and coming to discern strategies of interpellation, may the individual subject effectively resist them. Pannian also explores Said's ideas on exilic subjectivity, the role of intellectuals, acts of memory, critical secularism, affiliation and solidarity before dwelling on his interface with Marxist thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams. This engagement marks Said's own subject formation, and shapes his self-reflexive mode of knowledge production.

Author : Michael Bryson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000552330
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature written by Michael Bryson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape. Offering contributions by leading international scholars, this volume seeks to define literature as a core expressive form and an essential constitutive element of newly reformulated understandings of humanism. While the value of humanism has recently been dominated by anti-humanist and post-humanist perspectives which focused on the flaws and exclusions of previous definitions of humanism, this volume examines the human problems, dilemmas, fears, and aspirations expressed in literature, as a fundamentally humanist art form and activity. Divided into three overarching categories, this companion will explore the histories, developments, debates, and contestations of humanism in literature, and deliver fresh definitions of "the new humanism" for the humanities. This focus aims to transcend the boundaries of a world in which human life is all too often defined in terms of restrictions—political, economic, theological, intellectual—and lived in terms of obedience, conformity, isolation, and fear. The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature will provide invaluable support to humanities students and scholars alike seeking to navigate the relevance and resilience of humanism across world cultures and literatures.

Author : Bashir Abu-Manneh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429173
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Said written by Bashir Abu-Manneh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the problems and opportunities afforded by Edward Said's work and develops a materialist critique of postcolonial studies.

Author : Robert T. Tally
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037689
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topophrenia written by Robert T. Tally and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one's location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan's "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Author : Yuan Shu
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 1611688485
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Studies as Transnational Practice written by Yuan Shu and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume elaborates on the causes of the transnational paradigm shift in American studies and describes the material changes that this new paradigm has effected during the past two decades. The contributors hail from a variety of postcolonial, transoceanic, hemispheric, and post-national positions and sensibilities, enabling them to theorize a "crossroads of cultures" explanation of transnational American studies that moves beyond the multicultural studies model. Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy a broad range of students and scholars.

Author : Therí A. Pickens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351596527
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab American Aesthetics written by Therí A. Pickens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab American Aesthetics enlists a wide range of voices to explore, if not tentatively define, what could constitute Arab American aesthetics in literature, material culture, film, and theatre. This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set of choices and constraints. Rather than divorce aesthetics from politics, the book sutures the two more closely together by challenging the causal relationship so often attributed to them. The conversations include formal choices, but also extend to the broad idea of what makes a work distinctly Arab American. That is, what about its beauty, ugliness, sublimity, or humor is explicitly tied to it as part of a tradition of Arab American arts? The book opens up the ways that we discuss Arab American literary and fine arts, so that we understand how Arab American identity and experience begets Arab American artistic enterprise. Split into three sections, the first offers a set of theoretical propositions for understanding aesthetics that traverse Arab American cultural production. The second section focuses on material culture as a way to think through the creation of objects as an aesthetic enterprise. The final section looks at narratives in theatre and how the impact of such a medium has the potential to recreate in both senses of the word: play and invention. By shifting the conversation from identity politics to the relationship between politics and aesthetics, this book provides an important contribution to Arab American studies. It will also appeal to students and scholars of ethnic studies, museum studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Bill Richardson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137488514
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spatiality and Symbolic Expression written by Bill Richardson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression and cultural production, whether it be literature, music, dance, films, or art.

Author : A. Soon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137532912
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives written by A. Soon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Approaching novels and films such as Beloved and The Exorcist , this study intersects psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and various spatial theories.

Author : S. Moslund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137453222
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature’s Sensuous Geographies written by S. Moslund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.