The Theory Toolbox

by Nealon, Jeffrey T.; Giroux, Susan Searls

• ISBN13: 9780742519947
• ISBN10: 0742519945
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This text involves students in understanding and using the tools of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspec

Author Biography

Jeffrey Nealon is professor in the English Department at Penn State University Susan Searls Giroux has a joint appointment in the English Department and the College of Education at Penn State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Why Theory?	p. 1
Author/ity	p. 9
Reading	p. 21
Subjectivity	p. 35
Culture	p. 51
Multiculturalism	p. 55
Popular Culture	p. 59
Media Culture	p. 70
Ideology	p. 83
History	p. 95
Space/Time	p. 109
Posts	p. 125
Postmodernism	p. 125
Poststructuralism	p. 131
Postcolonialism	p. 140
Differences	p. 157
Gender	p. 164
Queer	p. 170
Race	p. 175
Class	p. 180
Concluding Differences	p. 186
Agency	p. 193
Credits	p. 207
Index	p. 209
About the Authors	p. 217
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