Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth, value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset of the new century. Without disregarding or neglecting the legacy of "Theory," this volume presents the various suggestions and concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities of the contemporary social and cultural life. It is a timely and relevant source of reference to those who wish to develop an understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach to the current problems worldwide, their representations in literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.
Zekiye Antakyalioglu is professor and chair of English Literature at Gaziantep University, Turkey.
Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction Zekiye Antakyalioglu Part I: Changing Climates in Theory and Criticism Chapter One: A Liberal Humanism for the Twenty-First Century? Cian Duffy Chapter Two: The Ethical Turn: Return of Empathy Aytul OEzum Chapter Three: The Microfascistic Turn and the Question of Sympathy in the 21st Century Rahime Cokay Nebioglu Chapter Four: Enjoy Your Theory! Post-Lacanian, Psychoanalytical Approaches to Literature and Culture Aylin Alkac Chapter Five: Does Postcolonial Still Have Relevance? Mehmet Ali Celikel Part II: Post-(Humanist)-Theories Chapter Six: A Reconsideration of Subjectivity? Lacan's Response to Posthumanism Nurten Birlik Chapter Seven: From Theory to Literature: Posthumanism as a Post-Theoretical Endeavour Basak Agin Chapter Eight: The Rhizome d'etre of Posthumanism and the Question of Ethics: Revisiting Braidotti with Agamben Zekiye Antakyalioglu Chapter Nine: The Posthuman Turn: 21st Century Variations of Feminism Ela Ipek Gunduz Chapter Ten: Reinterpreting the Anthropocene: Towards an Ecocentric Worldview Cenk Tan Chapter Eleven: Literary Data, Fossil and Speculation Emrah Peksoy Part III: Literary Landscapes Chapter Twelve: Reading Character in Reading or, Character Again, Post-Theoretically Ivan Callus Chapter Thirteen: The Affective Politics of the Twenty-First Century Novel Selen Aktari-Sevgi Chapter Fourteen: Post-Postmodernism Bran Nicol Chapter Fifteen: Metamodernism: Is it a New Hype for "the Post-Postmodern Syndrome"? Enes Kavak Chapter Sixteen: The Lines of Influence: The (In)Visibility of Poetry After Theory Seda Sen Chapter Seventeen: The Posthuman Turn in Postdramatic Theatre Mesut Gunenc Part IV: Post-Philologies Chapter Eighteen: Post-Theory and Post-Translation Studies Evrim Dogan Adanur Chapter Nineteen: New Directions in Corpus Linguistics Meltem Muslu Chapter Twenty: Translingualism in the Context of Language Teaching in the 21st Century: New Approaches and New Practices Gamze Almacioglu Chapter Twenty-One: Language Education Within and After the Post-Method Era Vildan Inci Kavak Appendix About the Contributors Index
