The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said

Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-50426-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3115 g

Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.

Zielgruppe

Research

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The World, the Text, and the Geocritic; Robert T. Tally Jr. 1. Said, Space, and Biopolitics: Giorgio Agamben's and D. H. Lawrence's States of Exception; Russell West-Pavlov 2. Orient Within, Orient Without: Said's "Hostipitality" towards Arnoldian Culture; Emel Tastekin, 3. Edward W. Said, the Sphere of Humanism, and the Neoliberal University; Jeffrey Hole 4. Back to Beginnings: Reading Between Aesthetics and Politics; Daniel Rosenberg Nutters 5. Revisiting Said's "Secular Criticism": Anarchism, Enabling Ethics, and Oppositional Ethics; Darwin H. Tsen and Charlie Wesley 6. Transnational Identity in Crisis: Re-reading Edward W. Said's Out of Place; Sobia Khan 7. De-Orienting Aesthetic Education; Cameron Bushnell 8. Dangerous Insight: (Not) Seeing Australian Aborigines in the Narrative of James Murrells; Kristine Kelly 9. Exilic Consciousness and Alternative Modernist Geographies in the Work of Olive Schreiner and Katherine Mansfield; Elizabeth Syrkin 10. Mundus Totus Exilium Est: Reflections on the Critic in Exile; Robert T. Tally Jr.

Über Autor(innen)

Cameron Bushnell, Clemson University, USA

Jeffrey Hole, University of the Pacific, USA

Kristine Kelly, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Sobia Khan, Richland College, USA

Daniel Rosenberg Nutters, Temple University, USA

Elizabeth Syrkin, University of Muenster, Germany

Emel Tastekin, Yasar University, Turkey

Darwin Tsen, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Charlie Wesley, Daemen College, USA

Russell West-Pavlov, University of Tübingen, Germany