Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories Thought on the E
This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged “death of theory” and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the “finitude” of theoretical projects does not mean “end”, but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, be
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Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories Thought on the Edge
Editor Nicoletta Pireddu Department of Italian Georgetown University Washington, DC, USA
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Acknowledgements
This volume “on the edge” was born on and of borders, thanks to a variety of cultural connections and intellectual exchanges that took shape across places and time zones. The energizing atmosphere of the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association annual conference at Harvard University spearheaded the project to engage with the status and options of theory in the seminar that I co-organized with Huiwen Helen Zhang, “Recoding and Reinventing Theories.” The stimulating discussion fostered by all seminar participants continued well after the conference, tracing multiple lines of development that involved additional scholars committed to moving theory and criticism forward, with an eye to the past and the desire to craft new objects of study. Although my co-brainstormer Huiwen Helen Zhang and our colleague Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère could not, unfortunately, contribute to this book, I am grateful to both of them for their brilliant ideas. Un gros merci to Didier Coste, for his endless energy and engaging conversations on both sides of the pond, and to all contributors to his volume, who enthusiastically supported this project and coped with all my messages along the road.
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