Ten lessons in theory : an introduction to theoretical writing
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Ten lessons in theory : an introduction to theoretical writing
Bloomsbury, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
An introduction to literary theory unlike any other, Ten Lessons in Theory engages its readers with three fundamental premises. The first premise is that a genuinely productive understanding of theory depends upon a considerably more sustained encounter with the foundational writings of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud than any reader is likely to get from the introductions to theory that are currently available. The second premise involves what Fredric Jameson describes as "the conviction that of all the writing called theoretical, Lacan's is the richest." Entertaining this conviction, the book pays more (and more careful) attention to the richness of Lacan's writing than does any other introduction to literary theory. The third and most distinctive premise of the book is that literary theory isn't simply theory "about" literature, but that theory fundamentally is literature, after all.
Ten Lessons in Theory argues, and even demonstrates, that "theoretical writing" is nothing if not a specific genre of "creative writing," a particular way of engaging in the art of the sentence, the art of making sentences that make trouble-sentences that make, or desire to make, radical changes in the very fabric of social reality.
As its title indicates, the book proceeds in the form of ten "lessons," each based on an axiomatic sentence selected from the canon of theoretical writing. Each lesson works by creatively unpacking its featured sentence and exploring the sentence's conditions of possibility and most radical implications. In the course of exploring the conditions and consequences of these troubling sentences, the ten lessons work and play together to articulate the most basic assumptions and motivations supporting theoretical writing, from its earliest stirrings to its most current turbulences.
Provided in each lesson is a working glossary: specific critical keywords are boldfaced on their first appearance and defined either in the text or in a footnote. But while each lesson constitutes a precise explication of the working terms and core tenets of theoretical writing, each also attempts to exemplify theory as a "practice of creativity" (Foucault) in itself.
目次
Acknowledgments
Preface: "Something worth reading": Theory and/as the Art of the Sentence
Introductory Matters: What Theory Does, Why Theory Lives
Lesson 1: "The world must be made to mean"-or, in(tro)ducing the subject of human reality
Lesson 2: "Meaning is the polite word for pleasure"-or, how the beast in the nursery learns to read
Lesson 3: "Language is by nature fictional"-or, why the word for moonlight can't be moonlight
Lesson 4: "Desire must be taken literally"-a few words on death, sex, and interpretation
Lesson 5: "You are not yourself"-or, I (think, therefore I) is an other
Lesson 6: "This restlessness is us"-or, the least that can be said about Hegel
Lesson 7: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism"-or, the fates of literary formalism
Lesson 8: "The unconscious is structured like a language"-or, invasions of the signifier
Lesson 9: "There is nothing outside the text"-or, fear of the proliferation of meaning
Lesson 10: "One is not born a woman"-on making the world queerer than ever
In the End: Theory is (not-) Forever
Reference Matters
Index
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