Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories: Thought on the Edge

Introduction: Recoding the Past, Reinventing the Post; Nicoletta Pireddu Part I. Meta-theoretical Premises 1. Critiquing the Critique, Ming Xie 2. The Scope of Literary Theory; Patrick Colm Hogan 3. In Defense of an Unstable Literature, Sébastien Doubinsky Part II. Theoretical Approaches to Literature 4. Illegitimacy as Norm: On the Temporal Structure of Science and Theory; Kirk Wetters 5. On Aristocratic Reading: The Ordeal of Conversion; Peter Paik 6. Reconstructing Religion and Literature; Vincent Pecora 7. Transcreationl Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère Part III. Critical and Cultural Theories 8. Space, Mobility, and Materiality: Rethinking Notions of Geographic Coherence; Diana Sorensen 9. Outsourcing Post-Colonialism; Rukmini Bhaya Nair 10. Provincializing Posthumanism; Neda Atanasoki 11. Experimental Cosmopolitanism; Didier Coste Coda 12. Critical Pedagogy: Practical Occidentalism in the Classroom; Robert Cowan