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Book SynopsisPost-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth, value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset of the new century. Without disregarding or neglecting the legacy of “Theory,” this volume presents the various suggestions and concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities of the contemporary social and cultural life. It is a timely and relevant source of reference to those who wish to develop an understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach to the current problems worldwide, their representations in literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Editor’s Introduction
Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Part I: Changing Climates in Theory and Criticism
Chapter One: A Liberal Humanism for the Twenty-First Century?
Cian Duffy
Chapter Two: The Ethical Turn: Return of Empathy
Aytül Özüm
Chapter Three: The Microfascistic Turn and the Question of Sympathy in the 21st Century
Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
Chapter Four: Enjoy Your Theory! Post-Lacanian, Psychoanalytical Approaches to Literature and Culture
Aylin Alkaç
Chapter Five: Does Postcolonial Still Have Relevance?
Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Part II: Post-(Humanist)-Theories
Chapter Six: A Reconsideration of Subjectivity? Lacan’s Response to Posthumanism
Nurten Birlik
Chapter Seven: From Theory to Literature: Posthumanism as a Post-Theoretical Endeavour
Başak Ağın
Chapter Eight: The Rhizome d’être of Posthumanism and the Question of Ethics: Revisiting Braidotti with Agamben
Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Chapter Nine: The Posthuman Turn: 21st Century Variations of Feminism
Ela İpek Gündüz
Chapter Ten: Reinterpreting the Anthropocene: Towards an Ecocentric Worldview
Cenk Tan
Chapter Eleven: Literary Data, Fossil and Speculation
Emrah Peksoy
Part III: Literary Landscapes
Chapter Twelve: Reading Character in Reading or, Character Again, Post-Theoretically
Ivan Callus
Chapter Thirteen: The Affective Politics of the Twenty-First Century Novel
Selen Aktari-Sevgi
Chapter Fourteen: Post-Postmodernism
Bran Nicol
Chapter Fifteen: Metamodernism: Is it a New Hype for “the Post-Postmodern Syndrome”?
Enes Kavak
Chapter Sixteen: The Lines of Influence: The (In)Visibility of Poetry After Theory
Seda Şen
Chapter Seventeen: The Posthuman Turn in Postdramatic Theatre
Mesut Günenç
Part IV: Post-Philologies
Chapter Eighteen: Post-Theory and Post-Translation Studies
Evrim Doğan Adanur
Chapter Nineteen: New Directions in Corpus Linguistics
Meltem Muşlu
Chapter Twenty: Translingualism in the Context of Language Teaching in the 21st Century: New Approaches and New Practices
Gamze Almacıoğlu
Chapter Twenty-One: Language Education Within and After the Post-Method Era
Vildan İnci Kavak
Appendix
About the Contributors
Index
