{"product_id":"theory-in-the-post-era-9781501358951","title":"Theory in the Post Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the AATSEEL 2022 Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume  (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAATSEEL is The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eTheory in the Post Era\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the post era. Since the Cold War''s end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the after - of whole paradigms, the crisis or passing of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural condition, as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an anti, meta, or neo alternative, with examples ranging from posthumanism and post-postmodernism to post-aesthetics, postanalog interpretation or digicriticism, post-presentism, post-memory, post- or neo-critique, and so forth.   It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume arg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheory in the “Post” Era\u003c\/i\u003e manages to assemble a heterogenous collection of interventions which capture the essential cultural gestures and ethical reflexes of “an era that seems at once epistemologically insurgent and blasé” (173). In doing so, it lays the lexical groundwork for its envisioned projects of communal futurity. * Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory *\u003cbr\u003eWhat Theory in the Post Era, as a collective manifesto – for a new age, a “post” age of literary theory – excels at is finding new and functional alternatives to an otherwise overused and exhausted set of working notion for the study of literary and critical phenomena in and from the margins and deliver them to the world. More than that, there are several concepts introduced for the very first time (at least in a similarly ambitious editorial project) that could feasibly form the basis for a new “communality” in Eastern European literary theory and that could rapidly enter the world theory system. * Philologica Jassyensia *\u003cbr\u003eEven readers annoyed by the proliferation of constructions in “post-“ will discover much to engage and provoke in this lively collection by a group of Romanian scholars.  Writing from the periphery of Europe yet well-versed in contemporary Western critical thought, they offer original, estranging perspectives on issues of the moment, whether proposing an Easthetics, a Constructuralism, or literary criticism as diplomacy. * Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Cornell University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eJust as there is ‘World Literature,’ this book urges us to consider ‘World Theory.’ While we often tout the globalism of theory, its history typically focuses on Western Europe and the US. Reminding us that the story of theory is a travel narrative, this collection features work arising from Romania’s Critical Theory Institute, whose members have been investigating the various possibilities of theory in the new millennium. One way to think of theory is as the genre that allows us to speak critically across various national, disciplinary, and temporal borders, and Theory in the ‘Post’ Era works to create a contemporary intellectual commons. * Jeffrey Williams, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism *\u003cbr\u003eThis group of inspired Romanian 'post' theorists decisively shows two things.  First, theory is no thing.  You cannot be for or against it.  It is rather the ubiquitous fabric of our global conversation on politics, culture, science, and art.  Second, theory is no longer (and never really was) an elite discourse promulgated in Paris, New York, New Haven, and Irvine.  It is a radically decentered interrogation that is elaborated in both Cluj and Greensboro, in Walla Walla and Taipei.  It is alive and well and living on the periphery! * Paul Allen Miller, Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, USA *\u003cbr\u003eBoldly recasting theory as World Theory, this timely volume makes a compelling case for 'theory commons,' for what we as theorists translate and share as an open-ended, transnational community, a community—needed by theory \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e in need of theory—invested in thinking inventively and comparatively the plethora of “posts” endemic to our infinitely interconnected planetary condition. * Zahi Zalloua, Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature, Whitman College, USA *\u003cbr\u003e‘Romania,’ amid the planetary turbulence of 2021, is every bit as a propos as the more  customary ‘deconstruction’ or ‘Cultural Studies’ in denoting that interstitial zone (or lab) where new modalities of critical reception, theoretical investigation, and cultural mapping, prompted by turbulent developments, get generated. Romanian intellectuals have routinely coped with their country’s historical placement in a multicultural ‘outskirts’ of European culture, with its World War II suppression under Nazism, followed by the singularly cruel abuses and meltdown of its Communist regime. It is no accident that we turn to an ‘A-team’ of Romanian commentators assembled by the editors of \u003ci\u003eTheory in the ‘Post’ Era\u003c\/i\u003e in our own efforts to process distortion effects now entrenched but particularly rampant since 2016, with no end in sight. In treating the periphery as a theoretical phenomenon on a planetary scale in its own right; in registering the inroads made by such factors as science, systems theory, cybernetics, design, geography, and diplomacy into contemporary cultural deliberation, the collective authorship of \u003ci\u003eTheory in the ‘Post’ Era \u003c\/i\u003ecasts luminous insight on present-day impasses, while crystallizing the vision necessary for addressing the future. * Henry Sussman, Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e    Introduction: Toward a “Post” Vocabulary-- A Lab Report \u003ci\u003eAlexandru Matei, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania; Christian Moraru,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA; \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Andrei Terian, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Constructualism: Literary Evolution as Multiscalar Design \u003ci\u003eTeodora Dumitru, G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Post-Aesthetics: Literature, Ontology, and Criticism as Diplomacy \u003ci\u003eAlexandru Matei, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Eastethics: The Ideological Shift in Narratology \u003ci\u003eAlex Goldis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBabes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomania\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Metapolitics: Recommitting Literature in the Populist Aftermath \u003ci\u003eIoana Macrea-Toma, Central European University of Budapest, Hungary\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Communality: Un-Disciplining Race, Class, and Sex in the Wake of Anti-“PC” Monomania \u003ci\u003eAndrei Terian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Anarchetype: Reading Aesthetic Form after “Structure” \u003ci\u003eCorin Braga, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Temporalities\u003c\/b\u003e 7. Post-Synchronism: “Cultural Complex,” or Critical Theory’s Unfinished Business \u003ci\u003eCarmen Musat, University of Bucharest, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Post-Presentism: The Past, the Passed, and “Now” as Critical Operator \u003ci\u003eBogdan Cretu, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Postfuturism: Contemporaneity, Truth, and the End of World Literature \u003ci\u003eChristian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Post-Memory: The Labor of Critical Remembrance after Communism \u003ci\u003eAndreea Mironescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Biofiction: Metamorphoses of Life-Writing across Criticism, Theory, and Literature  \u003ci\u003eLaura Cernat, Independent Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III: Critical Modes\u003c\/b\u003e 12. Geocritique: Siting, Poverty, and the Global Southeast \u003ci\u003eStefan Baghiu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Neocritique: Sherlock Holmes Investigates Literature \u003ci\u003eMihai Iovanel, G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Digicriticism: Profession On(the)Line \u003ci\u003eAdriana Stan, Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Somatography: Writing as Incorporated Cognition, or the Body Knows More \u003ci\u003eCaius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Post-Canonicity: Curating World Literary Archives after Postmodernism \u003ci\u003eCosmin Borza, Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eContributors Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187874881879,"sku":"9781501358951","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theory-in-the-post-era-9781501358951","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}