ENGL 698 materials: Grad Thesis
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Note to Self

 

 Bryan Reynolds and Paul Cefalu, eds., Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media, Tarrying with the Subjunctive: The Return of Theory in Early Modern Studies, (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming, Feb, 2011)

 

Description:

 

Over the last ten years, scholars of early modern English literature, theatre and culture have become increasingly reluctant to engage critical theory. Yet some scholars have maintained an active interest in theory, and this marginal group is growing. Recently, the work of Gilles Deleuze, Sam Weber, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Marion, Slavoj Žižek and others, including work in related fields such as consciousness studies and cognitive neuroscience, have received attention. Such theoretical work has been applied to enhance our understanding of early modern political theory, theology, authorship, and publishing, as well as subjectivity and affect. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, the religious turn in early modern studies, and rematerialisms and performance, this is the first collection of essays to explore the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literature and culture. The book includes essays by thirteen leading scholars whose work incorporates the most recent and sophisticated theoretical inquiries into new readings of early modern texts (Palgrave-Macmillan)

Table of contents:

 

Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction; P.Cefalu & B.Reynolds
PART I: NEW FORMALISMS AND COGNITIVISM 
A Paltry 'Hoop of Gold': Semantics and Systematicity in Early Modern Studies; F.E.Hart
If: Lear's Feather and the Staging of Science; A.Cook 
Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media; J.Boyle 
What was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions; J.Yates 
PART I: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS TURN 
Introduction to a Totem Meal: Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt and Political Theology; J.Reinhard Lupton
The Marlovian Sublime: Imagination and the Problem of Political Theology; G.Hammill
Humanism and the Resistance to Theology; W.West
'Grace to Boot': St. Paul, Messianic Time, and Shakespeare's The Winter's TaleK.Jackson
'Love's Best Habit': Eros, Agape and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare's Sonnets; G.Kuchar
PART III: REMATERIALISMS
Against Materialism in Literary Theory; D.Hawkes
Performativity of the Court: Stuart Masque as Postdramatic Theatre; J.Limon
'Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent work on the Mind'; G.Egan 
Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor FaustusI.Munro 
Index