Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

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by Julian Wolfreys

Palgrave

Due/Published November 2003, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0333960599

Rather than a straightforward dictionary of terms, this book gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short extracts from the work of key thinkers and critics. Each term, concept or keyword and the passages discussing these are glossed and annotated; at the end of each entry a few reflective, practical questions direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address.

Contents

Preface
Critical Keywords:
Abjection
Aesthetics
Alterity
Aporia
Carnival/Carnivalesque
Class
Culture
Deconstruction
Desire
Difference/Différence
Discourse
Event
Gender
Hegemony
Hyperreality
Hypertext
I/dentity
Ideology
ImaginarySymbolicReal
Interpellation
Intertextuality
Iterability/Iteration
Jouissance
Khora/Chora
Literature
Materialism/Materiality
Modernism
Myth/ology
Narrative/Narration
Other
Overdetermination
Performativity
Postmodernity/Postmodernism
Power
Queer
Race
Reader/Reading
Sexuality/Sexual Difference
Simulacrum/Simulation
Subject/ivity
Uncanny
Unconscious
Writing
Afterwords: Literary and Cultural Theory: the Contested Ground of Critical Language or Terms, Concepts, and Motifs
Works Cited