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“Bowlby’s work brilliantly insists on the relevance of cultural critique to our own everyday lives.”–Prof. Josephine McDonagh, King’s College London *** “This is a wonderfully readable, eloquent, wise, witty, and absorbing book.”–J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Prof. Emeritus, U. of California, Irvine *** When something called ‘theory’ first broke on to the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading, including new methods and subjects, as well as new words to speak them. The short pieces brought together in Talking Walking engage with all sorts of arguments then and now about the uses and history of critical reading-of literature, and also of other cultural forms. There is much on the changing styles of literary-critical writing, and on the place of particular writers-Virginia Woolf or Jacques Derrida-in contemporary critical culture. There are pieces on cliches, on footnotes, on the language of the university job interview, on the use of ‘domesticate’ as a catch-all negative term. There are also essays on cultural questions informed by critical theory. For instance: why has the topic of walking been such a fruitful thinking theme in literature and philosophy? How does the history of shopping and marketing theory intersect with those of literature and subjectivity? How, in the light of reproductive technologies and new social forms, has becoming a parent turned into a culturally prominent kind of story? These are some of the questions that arise in the interview and essays that make up Rachel Bowlby’s book, which derives from several decades of working and writing and talking and walking within the changing contemporary landscape of literary and critical studies. (Series: Critical Voices) [Subject: Literary Theory, Sociology]
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“Bowlby’s work brilliantly insists on the relevance of cultural critique to our own everyday lives.”–Prof. Josephine McDonagh, King’s College London *** “This is a wonderfully readable, eloquent, wise, witty, and absorbing book.”–J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Prof. Emeritus, U. of California, Irvine *** When something called ‘theory’ first broke on to the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading, including new methods and subjects, as well as new words to speak them. The short pieces brought together in Talking Walking engage with all sorts of arguments then and now about the uses and history of critical reading-of literature, and also of other cultural forms. There is much on the changing styles of literary-critical writing, and on the place of particular writers-Virginia Woolf or Jacques Derrida-in contemporary critical culture. There are pieces on cliches, on footnotes, on the language of the university job interview, on the use of ‘domesticate’ as a catch-all negative term. There are also essays on cultural questions informed by critical theory. For instance: why has the topic of walking been such a fruitful thinking theme in literature and philosophy? How does the history of shopping and marketing theory intersect with those of literature and subjectivity? How, in the light of reproductive technologies and new social forms, has becoming a parent turned into a culturally prominent kind of story? These are some of the questions that arise in the interview and essays that make up Rachel Bowlby’s book, which derives from several decades of working and writing and talking and walking within the changing contemporary landscape of literary and critical studies. (Series: Critical Voices) [Subject: Literary Theory, Sociology]

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