Theory Toolbox - Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey T. Nealon is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at Penn State University.Susan Searls Giroux is assistant professor of English at McMaster University. Klappentext This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense.Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on life and nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Why Theory?Chapter 2: Author/ityChapter 3: ReadingChapter 4: SubjectivityChapter 5: CultureMulticulturalismPopular CultureMedia CultureMedia Culture 2.0Chapter 6: IdeologyChapter 7: HistoryChapter 8: Space/TimeChapter 9: PostsPostmodernismPostculturalismPostcolonialismChapter 10: DifferencesGenderQueerRaceClassConcluding DifferencesChapter 11: LifeBiopowerResistanceThe Economics of Culture; or, the Biopower BusinessChapter 12: NatureAnimalityChapter 13: AgencyCreditsIndexAbout the Authors

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• Authors: Susan Searls Giroux, Jeffrey Nealon, Jeffrey (Pennsylvania State University Nealon, Jeffrey Searls Giroux Nealon, Jeffrey T. Nealon, Jeffrey T. Giroux Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2011
• EAN: 9780742570504
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-7050-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Culture and Politics Series; Culture and Politics Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Sociology & anthropology, Literary theory, Communication Theory;Student Resources