Textual Layering
by Brendan Moran (Contribution by)Adnan Mahmutovic (Contribution by)Marios Constantinou (Contribution by)Gertrude Postl (Contribution by)Tina Chanter (Contribution by)S. K. Keltner (Contribution by)Kalliopi Nikolopoulou (Contribution by)Elena Tzelepis (Contribution by)Maria Margaroni (Editor)Apostolos Lampropoulos (Editor, Contribution by)Christakis Chatzichristou (Editor)Frances Restuccia (Contribution by)John Lechte (Contribution by)Judith Wambacq (Contribution by)William Watkin (Contribution by)Michael Beehler (Contribution by)
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Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of "layering," a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of "layering," the chapters in this book return to and re-appraise some of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical scene: that is, concerns over the strained interplay between writing and the body; textuality and history; critique, différance and the feminine; memory, trace, and the immemorial. The aim of the diverse--often polemical--analyses carried out in this volume is to reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact, diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering.
This collection will be of interest to scholars of continental philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.
This collection will be of interest to scholars of continental philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.
| ISBN-13 | 9781498501347 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1498501346 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 322 pages |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Published On | 2017-01-01 |
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