Walter Scott and contemporary theory /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Everything you always wanted to know about Scott but were afraid to ask Contemporary Theory (and vice versa)
- Subjectivity, or Waverley and Ivanhoe with Žižek
- Historicity, or the antiquary and redgauntlet with Koselleck and Delanda
- Hybridity and performativity, or Rob Roy and the talisman with Bhabha and Butler
- Governmentality, or the heart of mid-lothian and Quentin Durward with Foucault and Agamben
- Hospitality and community, or The bride of Lammermoor and chronicles of the Canongate with Habermas, Derrida, and a multitude of theorists
- Conclusion: Posthuman Scott?.