- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Mar 26 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415287626
- ISBN-13: 978-0415287623
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
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- #62 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Literary Criticism
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Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall:
* examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory
* applies the theories discussed in detailed readings of literary and cultural texts, from novels and poetry to film and the visual arts
* offers a unique perspective on our current obsession with perfecting our selves
* looks to the future of selfhood given the new identity possibilities arising out of developing technologies.
Examining some of the most exciting issues confronting cultural critics and readers today, Subjectivity is the essential introduction to a fraught but crucial critical term and a challenge to the way we define our selves.
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While the insights of what we term the "New Historicism" have thoroughly undermined the credibility of a neat and linear historical trajectory of progress and expansion of understanding (see Paul Hamilton's Historicism [1996] for a full discussion), it is still important to recognize that change does occur over time, and that there have been dramatic shifts in socio-political context and consciousness that justify our self-aware use of historical periodization, as an attempt to understand our past, present, and possible futures. Read the first page
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While the insights of what we term the "New Historicism" have thoroughly undermined the credibility of a neat and linear historical trajectory of progress and expansion of understanding (see Paul Hamilton's Historicism [1996] for a full discussion), it is still important to recognize that change does occur over time, and that there have been dramatic shifts in socio-political context and consciousness that justify our self-aware use of historical periodization, as an attempt to understand our past, present, and possible futures. Read the first page
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