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  • "Theory in the ""Post"" Era" by Moraru, Christian; Terian, Andrei; Matei, Alexandru;

    A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons

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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 23 September 2021
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781501358951
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages376 pages
    • Size 228.6x152.4 mm
    • Weight 671 g
    • Language English
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    Shortlisted for the AATSEEL 2022 Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume (AATSEEL is The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)

    Theory in the ""Post"" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the ""post"" era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the ""after"" - of whole paradigms, the crisis or ""passing"" of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural ""condition,"" as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an ""anti,"" ""meta,"" or ""neo"" alternative, with examples ranging from ""posthumanism"" and ""post-postmodernism"" to ""post-aesthetics,"" ""postanalog"" interpretation or ""digicriticism,"" ""post-presentism,"" ""post-memory,"" ""post-"" or ""neo-critique,"" and so forth.

    It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this ""post"" moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a ""worlded"" enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the ""Post"" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the ""post"" age.

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    Preface and Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Toward a ""Post"" Vocabulary-- A Lab Report
    Alexandru Matei, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania; Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA; and Andrei Terian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

    Part I: Aesthetics
    1. Constructualism: Literary Evolution as Multiscalar Design
    Teodora Dumitru, G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
    2. Post-Aesthetics: Literature, Ontology, and Criticism as Diplomacy
    Alexandru Matei, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
    3. Eastethics: The Ideological Shift in Narratology
    Alex Goldis, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    4. Metapolitics: Recommitting Literature in the Populist Aftermath
    Ioana Macrea-Toma, Central European University of Budapest, Hungary
    5. Communality: Un-Disciplining Race, Class, and Sex in the Wake of Anti-""PC"" Monomania
    Andrei Terian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
    6. Anarchetype: Reading Aesthetic Form after ""Structure""
    Corin Braga, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Part II: Temporalities
    7. Post-Synchronism: ""Cultural Complex,"" or Critical Theory's Unfinished Business
    Carmen Musat, University of Bucharest, Romania
    8. Post-Presentism: The Past, the Passed, and ""Now"" as Critical Operator
    Bogdan Cretu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
    9. Postfuturism: Contemporaneity, Truth, and the End of World Literature
    Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
    10. Post-Memory: The Labor of Critical Remembrance after Communism
    Andreea Mironescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
    11. Biofiction: Metamorphoses of Life-Writing across Criticism, Theory, and Literature
    Laura Cernat, Independent Scholar

    Part III: Critical Modes
    12. Geocritique: Siting, Poverty, and the Global Southeast
    Stefan Baghiu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
    13. Neocritique: Sherlock Holmes Investigates Literature
    Mihai Iovanel, G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania
    14. Digicriticism: Profession On(the)Line
    Adriana Stan, Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    15. Somatography: Writing as Incorporated Cognition, or the Body Knows More
    Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    16. Post-Canonicity: Curating World Literary Archives after Postmodernism
    Cosmin Borza, Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Bibliography
    Contributors
    Index

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