The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said [electronic resource] : Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature /
Tally, Robert T.editor.
Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The World, the Text, and the Geocritic; 1 Said, Space, and Biopolitics: Giorgio Agamben's and D.H. Lawrence's States of Exception; 2 Orient Within, Orient Without: Said's "Hostipitality" toward Arnoldian Culture; 3 Edward W. Said, the Sphere of Humanism, and the Neoliberal University; 4 Back to Beginnings: Reading between Aesthetics and Politics; 5 Revisiting Said's "Secular Criticism": Anarchism, Enabling Ethics, and Oppositional Ethics; 6 Transnational Identity in Crisis: Re-reading Edward W. Said's Out of Place
7 De-Orienting Aesthetic Education8 Dangerous Insight: (Not) Seeing Australian Aborigines in the Narrative of James Murrells; 9 Exilic Consciousness and Alternative Modernist Geographies in the Work of Olive Schreiner and Katherine Mansfield; 10 Mundus Totus Exilium Est: Reflections on the Critic in Exile; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.
Said, Edward W.
Said, Edward W.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
European literature.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Literary History.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
British and Irish Literature.