Traditional Subjectivities

Traditional Subjectivities
Author: Britt Mize
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442644680

Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of protagonists? Why are characters sometimes called into being for no apparent reason other than to embody a psychological state? Britt Mize provides the first systematic investigation into these salient questions in Traditional Subjectivities. Through close analysis of vernacular poems alongside the most informative analogues in Latin, Old English prose, and Old Saxon, this work establishes an evidence-based foundation for new thinking about the nature of Old English poetic composition, including the 'poetics of mentality' that it exhibits. Mize synthesizes two previously disconnected bodies of theory – the oral-traditional theory of poetic composition, and current linguistic work on conventional language – to advance our understanding of how traditional phraseology makes meaning, as well as illuminate the political and social dimensions of surviving texts, through attention to Old English poets' impulse to explore subjective perspectives.

The Feminine "No!"

The Feminine
Author: Todd McGowan
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791448748

Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing
Author: Sheldon George
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2024-08-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350383481

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers – Black British, African, Caribbean, African American – who remake traditional understandings of blackness. As the title word “experimental” signals, these essays foreground the narrative form and stylistic innovations of the black-authored novels they analyze. They also show how these experiments with form mirror the novels' convention-breaking experiments with reimagining Black female subjectivities. While each novel, of course, represents the complexities of diasporic experiences differently, some issues emerge that are broadly shared not just within a regional group, but across geographical borders. One feature of the collection is a comparative look at such linking themes across borders, under the rubrics: a return to precolonial systems of belief, reinventions of mothering, relational subjectivities, memory, history and haunting, and posthumanist revaluations. These themes take different shapes across the multitude of diverse cultures studied in this book. But together they establish a pan-global imaginative practice.

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities
Author: Sebastian Thies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2024-05-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1003860508

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis. The contestation of the Northern myth of the autonomous subject—the dispositive that contests subject formation in the South by describing it as fragmented, incomplete, delayed or simply deviant, has been a cornerstone of theory production from the South over the years. This volume’s contributions offer an interdisciplinary and transarea dialogue, reframing issues of selfhood and alterity, of personhood, of the human, of the commons and contesting the North’s presumption in determining what kind of subjectivities abide by its norms, whose voices are heard, who is recognised as a subject, and, by extension, whose lives matter. In the context of the shifting dynamics of today’s manifold crises, they raise questions regarding how subjectivities act on or resist such forms of contestation, contingency, and indeterminacy. A major contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the Global South, this handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, researchers and instructors in literature, media and culture studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law, politics, visual arts and art history.

Subjectivities

Subjectivities
Author: Regenia Gagnier
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1991
Genre: Autobiographical fiction, English
ISBN: 0195060962

The thesis of this text is that, whereas bourgeois subjectivity resembles the central and developing self of such novels as "David Copperfield", working-class subjectivity consists of an attention to working environment and community that diminishes concern with self.

Critical Indigenous Studies

Critical Indigenous Studies
Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816534586

With increasing speed, the emerging discipline of critical Indigenous studies is expanding and demarcating its territory from Indigenous studies through the work of a new generation of Indigenous scholars. Critical Indigenous Studies makes an important contribution to this expansion, disrupting the certainty of disciplinary knowledge produced in the twentieth century, when studying Indigenous peoples was primarily the domain of non-Indigenous scholars. Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s introductory essay provides a context for the emerging discipline. The volume is organized into three sections: the first includes essays that interrogate the embedded nature of Indigenous studies within academic institutions; the second explores the epistemology of the discipline; and the third section is devoted to understanding the locales of critical inquiry and practice. Each essay places and contemplates critical Indigenous studies within the context of First World nations, which continue to occupy Indigenous lands in the twenty-first century. The contributors include Aboriginal, Metis, Maori, Kanaka Maoli, Filipino-Pohnpeian, and Native American scholars working and writing through a shared legacy born of British and later U.S. imperialism. In these countries, critical Indigenous studies is flourishing and transitioning into a discipline, a knowledge/power domain where distinct work is produced, taught, researched, and disseminated by Indigenous scholars. View the Table of Contents here. Contributors: Hokulani K. Aikau Chris Andersen Larissa Behrendt Vicente M. Diaz Noelani Goodyear Kaopua Daniel Heath Justice Brendan Hokowhitu Aileen Moreton-Robinson Jean M. O'Brien Noenoe Silva Kim Tallbear Robert Warrior

Asceticism and the New Testament

Asceticism and the New Testament
Author: Leif E. Vaage
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135962243

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa

Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa
Author: Pnina Werbner
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781856499552

This is the third volume in a trilogy on identity, memory and subjectivity. Contributors to the book share an ambition to combine personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans. Their essays aim to forge alliances between patient local scholarship and adventurous theoretical speculation that should inspire new research and caution against bland generalizations about African marginality.

The Politics of Cyberspace

The Politics of Cyberspace
Author: Chris Toulouse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113668333X

The Politics of Cyberspace provides an overview of the impact of the world wide web on the political process. Chris Toulouse organizes the articles according to their theoretical approach--those who take up Habermas's concern with civil society and those who take up the postmodern critique of popular culture. The book covers key issues such as the potential for electronic democracy, the use of the web by mainstream political parties, challenges to the First Amendment, inequalities of access, and new understanding of gender. It also calls for progressive intellectuals to embrace the Internet in their political struggles.

Event and Subjectivity: The Question of Phenomenology in Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion

Event and Subjectivity: The Question of Phenomenology in Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion
Author: Kadir Filiz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004689540

Event and Subjectivity presents a rich phenomenological analysis of the event in contemporary phenomenology by focussing on the work of Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion. Although the event is a major topic of contemporary philosophy, its centrality has not been acknowledged enough in the phenomenological movement. The book starts with the idea that the event cannot find a proper place in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Heidegger’s existential phenomenology. It proposes a phenomenological version of the event that transforms the definition of phenomenon, subjectivity and phenomenology itself in order to do justice to the phenomenality of the event. At the same time, Event and Subjectivity is the first book on Claude Romano’s understanding of phenomenology in English. It also offers a fresh reading of the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion by highlighting the phenomenon of the event.