Procedures of Resistance Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of...

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Other Authors: Beganović, Davor (Editor), Božić, Zrinka (Editor), Milanko, Andrea (Editor), Perica, Ivana (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction (Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko, and Ivana Perica)
  • PART I: SYNECDOCHIC PROCEDURES
  • 2: Analytical vs Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia (Aage A. Hansen-Löve)
  • 3: The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrović and the Zagreb School (Predrag Brebanović)
  • 4: An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure (Dagmar Burkhart)
  • 5: The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis (Marina Protrka Štimec)
  • PART II: PROCEDURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY
  • 6: Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature (Tomislav Brlek)
  • 7: Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground (Stijn Vervaet)
  • 8: The Rhetoric of the Unsayable (Renate Lachmann)
  • 9: Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid (Nevena Daković)
  • PART III: PROCEDURES OF MATERIALISM 172
  • 10: The Economies of Theory and Resistance (Stipe Grgas)
  • 11: Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim’s and Lukács’s Third Ways (Ivana Perica)
  • 12: On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) (Jurij Murašov)
  • 13: Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović (Davor Beganović)
  • PART IV: MASTERING PROCEDURE
  • 14: Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures (Zrinka Božić)
  • 15: Literature’s Theories (Svend Erik Larsen)
  • 16: Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric (Andrea Milanko)
  • PART V: RESISTING PROCEDURES
  • 17: On Halt! (Vivian Liska)
  • 18: Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c (Nenad Ivić)
  • 19: The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism (Aleksandar Mijatović)