Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory

Introduction

Structure of the book and some caveats

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Forms
Matters of form in the twentieth century

Terry Eagleton: the Marxist critic as public intellectual

Fredric Jameson: committing to form and history

Franco Moretti: maps, graphs, and distant reading

Engaging with classic literature: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

Engaging with contemporary literature: Ian McEwan's Atonement

Engaging with film and new media: Austen on the big screen

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Discourses
Matters of discourse in modernity

Jean Baudrillard: prophet of the postmodern

Giorgio Agamben: a genealogy of biopolitics

Rey Chow: entangling ethnicity, visuality, and language

Engaging with classic literature: Emily Bront?'s Wuthering Heights

Engaging with contemporary literature: Hari Kunzru's White Tears

Engaging with film and new media: Easy

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Subjectivities and embodiments
The birth of the subject

Slavoj Zizek: theorizing with psychoanalysis and Marxism

Judith Butler: beyond gender performativity

Catherine Malabou: philosophy, plasticity, neuroscience

Engaging with classic literature: Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Engaging with contemporary literature: Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

Engaging with film and new media: The Fall

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Media, networks, machines
Toward our contemporary media moment

Jacques Ranciere: aesthetics for everyone

Bruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyond

N. Katherine Hayles: defining the posthuman

Engaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker's Dracula

Engaging with contemporary literature: Gwyneth Jones's Proof of Concept

Engaging with film and new media: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther

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Animals, affects, objects, environments

We have never been human

Donna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, Chthulucene

Sara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoys

Timothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontology

Engaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Engaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation

Engaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird

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