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Author: Rafey Habib
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Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. ullProvides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism llPlaces various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts llOffers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period llExplores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt llCovers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theorylulReviewLucid, wide-ranging, erudite and packed with insights, Rafey Habibs survey of modern criticism and theory has something for both the tenderfoot and the old-timer. Students everywhere will find it indispensable.Terry Eagleton, University of ManchesterThose who want to know where literary critics may be going should have this. Times Higher Education SupplementFrom the Back CoverModern Literary Criticism and Theory A History is the most comprehensive account of modern criticism and theory available in the English language. It provides a historical survey of the various modes of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. It is distinguished from other texts in the field not only by providing the larger historical contexts of modern critical works, but also by engaging in close readings of some of the major and commonly taught texts, offering clear, detailed, and philosophically informed explanations of difficult works.This broadly chronological narrative explores the works of a diverse group of twentieth-century writers from Irving Babbitt and T. S. Eliot through Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger to Jacques Derrida, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, and Elaine Scarry. It stresses the continuity and connections between the various critical approaches of formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, gender studies, reader-response and reception theory, historicism, cultural studies, and film theory, as well as the new emphases on aestheticism and liberalism. An invaluable resource for students and teachers at all levels, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in modern literature and culture.
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Author: Mark Dooley
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Moral Matters A Philosophy of Homecoming is Mark Dooleys attempt to offer an alternative to Cyberia. It is a book about home, memory and identity. At a time when people are rapidly disengaging from those forms of life which once bound them together, it can be argued that our happiness depends on saving and conserving them. We cannot flourish in isolation or by detaching from the social sphere which surrounds us. We cannot truly prosper or progress if we choose to forget where we came from or if we dismiss our inherited moral wisdom. And yet, in opting for loss, separation and homelessness, it seems we have done just that. We have opted for a rootless existence where alienation and amnesia are the norm. This powerful and passionate book shows how the alienated, postmodern self can become re-rooted to time and place and restored to full humanity and happiness whilst moving in a virtual, hyperconnected world. In caring for creation, conserving culture and saving the sacred we can once again make our home in the world and experience the consolation of moving from loss to love. **Review Moral Matters is a wonderful compendium of common sense from a highly sophisticated and decidedly modern writer. Mark Dooley writes with passion, conviction and admirable clarity of the dilemmas and temptations that face us, in a world of instant communication and material abundance - the world he calls Cyberia. The result links past and future together in a way that casts a dazzling light on the present. Roger Scruton, philosopher and author of A Short History of Modern Philosophy and Kant An Introduction You dont have to agree with everything that Mark Dooley says to be instructed by him. Moral Matters is a provocative critique of contemporary life and a bracing warning about what can go wrong in the postmodern world. John D. Caputo, Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University, USA and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Villanova University, USA At the heart of Moral Matters is the idea of home homebuilding and homecoming are Dooleys chief motifs. Against the traditional homestead and the pastoral outlook that sustains it Dooley contrast the spiritual wasteland of Cyberia and its ethic of instant gratification. Cyberia, the virtual world of video games and social networking websites, of fast food and online shopping, is a realm of immediacy and isolation, a place where lasting attachments are shunned in favor of fleeting exchanges and superficial allegiances ... Dooley ably disposes of the arguments of a variety of postmodern thinkers ... Dooley has the benefit of having written on all of these philosophers from a position sympathetic to their broad postmodernist project, and his responses are not careless denunciations but subtle and penetrating critiques ... as a work that unashamedly celebrates traditional values and unflinchingly faces the reality of a world where those values are everywhere imperiled, you will not find better. Sean Haylock, Crisis Magazine In this clear, well-organized treatise, Dooley (independent scholar) makes a robust attack on secularism, liberalism, postmodernism, and new information technologies. He calls his guiding concept Cyberia, defined as a disconnected and atomistic way of life taken up by the West through its use of smartphones and the Internet. Dooley cites many of the problems associated with such technologies e.g., loss of community, disinterest in genuine friendships, and disconnection from the Earth, the dead, and the unborn. His intellectual influences are broadly on display, as are his intellectual foes. To counter the positions of Caputo, Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty, Dooley draws on Hegel, Burke, and Scruton. The conservative vision he articulates draws not only from his personal lifestyle (as a Catholic) but from his weekly columns (also titled Moral Matters) for The Irish Daily Mail. Though many will disagree with much in the book, Dooley offers a clear, succinct, and accessible presentation of conservatism in a time when such positions are seen as increasingly irrational and dogmatically blind. Summing Up Recommended. All readers. T. Solymosi, Mercyhurst University, USA, CHOICE Book Description A lively defence of conservative thought in an age dedicated to liberalism by one of Irelands leading authors and columnists.
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