New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come

Edited by Julian Wolfreys

Published by EUP, June 2, 2017

ISBN-13: 978-0748699650

This volume introduces new areas of critical thinking that extend beyond traditional ‘isms’. The 11 chapters cover topics such as Literary Reading in a Digital Age, Critical Making in the Digital Humanities, Thing Theory, Memory Work and Criticism, Body, Objects, Technology, Criticism and ‘The Animal’, Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study, Critical and Creative Practice: Conditions for Success in the Writing Workshop, Affect Theory, Spectrality, and Critical Climate Change. Each chapter also features a critical ‘case study’ examining texts or practices like poetry writing guides, Seamus Heaney’s poem, film adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, e-readers and kindles, First World War poetry and prose, steampunk, and Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways. The final chapter offers a reflection on historically oriented criticism through a ’round table’ among the contributors.