Author: Meili Steele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Addresses one of the central crises in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent.
Theorising Textual Subjects
Author: Meili Steele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Addresses one of the central crises in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Addresses one of the central crises in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent.
Theorising Textual Subjects
Author: Meili Steele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorize the subject as both a construct of discourse and a dialogical agent. In Theorising Textual Subjects, Meili Steele argues that it is possible to understand the postmodern subject as an active political agent. Steele argues that some of the most influential theories of agency fail to account for the ethical implications of the supposed contingency of all contexts. Through wide reference to leading political, philosophical and critical thinkers, this book maps new ways of confronting the problem of how politics and ethics are deployed in imaginative narratives.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorize the subject as both a construct of discourse and a dialogical agent. In Theorising Textual Subjects, Meili Steele argues that it is possible to understand the postmodern subject as an active political agent. Steele argues that some of the most influential theories of agency fail to account for the ethical implications of the supposed contingency of all contexts. Through wide reference to leading political, philosophical and critical thinkers, this book maps new ways of confronting the problem of how politics and ethics are deployed in imaginative narratives.
Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and Feminist Theory
Author: Katherine Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this book Katherine Kearns explores the relationship of history to narrative. She combines psychoanalysis with recent feminist theory to reveal the hidden assumptions behind the construction of any historical narrative. Her alternative approach, one she labels psychohistoriography, rejects the notion that certain historical categories are inalienably given. By introducing insights derived from psychoanalysis and critical theory, Kearns expands our conception of what can legitimately count as historical evidence.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this book Katherine Kearns explores the relationship of history to narrative. She combines psychoanalysis with recent feminist theory to reveal the hidden assumptions behind the construction of any historical narrative. Her alternative approach, one she labels psychohistoriography, rejects the notion that certain historical categories are inalienably given. By introducing insights derived from psychoanalysis and critical theory, Kearns expands our conception of what can legitimately count as historical evidence.
Practical Theorising in Teacher Education
Author: Katharine Burn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000613755
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This insightful collection offers a timely contribution to the body of research on practical theorising in teacher education. Acknowledging the importance of experience and reflective practice in teaching, this book simultaneously embraces the essential need for teachers at all career stages to engage effectively and critically with evidence from research. Drawing together a range of perspectives from university-based and school-based teacher educators, this book examines the challenges and critiques advanced when practical theorising was first proposed, as well as recent tensions created by the performative culture that now pervades education. It illustrates the constant renegotiation and renewal necessary to sustain such an approach to beginners’ learning, investigating a range of tools developed by teacher educators to help beginning teachers navigate these demands. Demonstrating the value of practical theorising and therefore promoting powerful professional learning for practitioners, this book is essential for teachers at all career stages, including trainee teachers and student teachers.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000613755
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This insightful collection offers a timely contribution to the body of research on practical theorising in teacher education. Acknowledging the importance of experience and reflective practice in teaching, this book simultaneously embraces the essential need for teachers at all career stages to engage effectively and critically with evidence from research. Drawing together a range of perspectives from university-based and school-based teacher educators, this book examines the challenges and critiques advanced when practical theorising was first proposed, as well as recent tensions created by the performative culture that now pervades education. It illustrates the constant renegotiation and renewal necessary to sustain such an approach to beginners’ learning, investigating a range of tools developed by teacher educators to help beginning teachers navigate these demands. Demonstrating the value of practical theorising and therefore promoting powerful professional learning for practitioners, this book is essential for teachers at all career stages, including trainee teachers and student teachers.
Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
Author: Patrick McGee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
McGee explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept of the university as a democratic institution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
McGee explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept of the university as a democratic institution.
Qualitative Educational Research in Action
Author: Tom A. O'Donoghue
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415304202
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Anyone conducting qualitative research in education will be heartened and inspired by this collection, and will also find in it invaluable guidance.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415304202
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Anyone conducting qualitative research in education will be heartened and inspired by this collection, and will also find in it invaluable guidance.
The Practice of Theory
Author: Michael F. Bernard-Donals
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521595063
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Examines the practical use of theory as a pedagogical aid and argues for a broader conception of rhetoric in the human sciences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521595063
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Examines the practical use of theory as a pedagogical aid and argues for a broader conception of rhetoric in the human sciences.
Digitalizing the Global Text
Author: Paul Allen Miller
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360590
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A few years ago globalism seemed to be both a known and inexorable phenomenon. With the end of the Cold War, the opening of the Chinese economy, and the ascendancy of digital technology, the prospect of a unified flow of goods and services and of people and ideas seemed unstoppable. Political theorists such as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that we had reached "the end of history." Yes, there were pockets of resistance and reaction, but these, we were told, would be swept away in a relentless tide of free markets and global integration that would bring Hollywood, digital finance, and fast food to all. Religious fundamentalism, nationalism, and traditional sexual identities would melt away before the forces of "modernity" and empire. A relentless, technocratic rationality would sweep all in its wake, bringing a neoliberal utopia of free markets, free speech, and increasing productivity. Nonetheless, as we have begun to experience the backlash against a global world founded on digital fungibility, the perils of appeals to nationalism, identity, and authenticity have become only too apparent. The collapse of Soviet Communism left an ideological vacuum that offered no recognized place from which to oppose global capitalism. What is the alternative? The anxieties and resentments produced by this new world order among those left behind are often manifested in assertions of xenophobia and particularity. This is what it supposedly means to be really American, truly Muslim, properly Chinese. The "other" is coming to take what is ours, and we must "defend" ourselves. Digitalizing the Global Text is a collection of essays by an international group of scholars situated squarely at this nexus of forces. Together these writers examine how literature, culture, and philosophy in the global and digital age both enable the creation of these simultaneously utopian and dystopian worlds and offer a resistance to them. A joint publication from the University of South Carolina Press and the National Taiwan University Press.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360590
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A few years ago globalism seemed to be both a known and inexorable phenomenon. With the end of the Cold War, the opening of the Chinese economy, and the ascendancy of digital technology, the prospect of a unified flow of goods and services and of people and ideas seemed unstoppable. Political theorists such as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that we had reached "the end of history." Yes, there were pockets of resistance and reaction, but these, we were told, would be swept away in a relentless tide of free markets and global integration that would bring Hollywood, digital finance, and fast food to all. Religious fundamentalism, nationalism, and traditional sexual identities would melt away before the forces of "modernity" and empire. A relentless, technocratic rationality would sweep all in its wake, bringing a neoliberal utopia of free markets, free speech, and increasing productivity. Nonetheless, as we have begun to experience the backlash against a global world founded on digital fungibility, the perils of appeals to nationalism, identity, and authenticity have become only too apparent. The collapse of Soviet Communism left an ideological vacuum that offered no recognized place from which to oppose global capitalism. What is the alternative? The anxieties and resentments produced by this new world order among those left behind are often manifested in assertions of xenophobia and particularity. This is what it supposedly means to be really American, truly Muslim, properly Chinese. The "other" is coming to take what is ours, and we must "defend" ourselves. Digitalizing the Global Text is a collection of essays by an international group of scholars situated squarely at this nexus of forces. Together these writers examine how literature, culture, and philosophy in the global and digital age both enable the creation of these simultaneously utopian and dystopian worlds and offer a resistance to them. A joint publication from the University of South Carolina Press and the National Taiwan University Press.
To Write as a Boxer
Author: Kurt Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152753345X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This book recuperates the narrative of Andrew Jeptha, a Cape Town-born boxer who was the first black fighter to win a British welterweight title in 1907. As a result of that victory, Jeptha was permanently blinded, and took to preparing a book titled A South African Boxer in Britain (1910). This volume explores the relationship between the life of a pugilist and his textual production, and locates the complex negotiations of a pugilist by situating Jeptha in a larger arc of the ‘care of the self’, extending from Greco-Roman aesthetics to the present. In the process, it investigates the strategies of care that were integral to opposing, confronting and living in the increasingly racialised world of the early 1900s.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152753345X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This book recuperates the narrative of Andrew Jeptha, a Cape Town-born boxer who was the first black fighter to win a British welterweight title in 1907. As a result of that victory, Jeptha was permanently blinded, and took to preparing a book titled A South African Boxer in Britain (1910). This volume explores the relationship between the life of a pugilist and his textual production, and locates the complex negotiations of a pugilist by situating Jeptha in a larger arc of the ‘care of the self’, extending from Greco-Roman aesthetics to the present. In the process, it investigates the strategies of care that were integral to opposing, confronting and living in the increasingly racialised world of the early 1900s.
Critical Confrontations
Author: Meili Steele
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
To broaden the interpretive scope of critical theory and increase its usefulness, this text draws tradition-based views of language and anti-humanistic theories from their abstract frameworks into the field of cultural studies. It examines major thinkers and contemporary writers.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
To broaden the interpretive scope of critical theory and increase its usefulness, this text draws tradition-based views of language and anti-humanistic theories from their abstract frameworks into the field of cultural studies. It examines major thinkers and contemporary writers.