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Synopsis
Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organised thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to illuminate the field.
Evan Gottlieb contextualises the latest developments with regard to forms; discourses; subjectivities and embodiments; media, networks, and machines; and animals, affects, objects, and environments. Each chapter elucidates its concepts through 'engaging' examples from a canonical novel, a contemporary text, and a new media artefact, while textboxes regularly introduce additional emerging or overlooked theorists of interest such as Giorgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, and Catherine Malabou.
An ideal guide for students of literary and critical theory, this book will give readers the background they need to continue their own explorations of this vibrant field of study.