| Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology Contributor(s): Thomas, Calvin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501336339 ISBN-13: 9781501336331 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Reference - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory |
| Dewey: 818.602 |
| LCCN: 2018018029 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.14 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called "theory" is to disturb everyone-to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, Adventures in Theory offers a manageably short collection of writings that have famously enacted the central purpose of theory. Adventures in Theory takes readers on a steadily unsettling tour, spanning the most significant thought provocations in the history of theoretical writing from Marx and Nietzsche through Foucault and Derrida to Butler, Zizek, and Edelman. Engagingly lean and enjoyably mean, this is a minimalist anthology with maximal impact. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thomas, Calvin: - Calvin Thomas is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. He is the author of Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) and Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line (University of Illinois Press, 1996). He is the editor of Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (University of Illinois Press, 2000). |