...Andrew Cole © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Andrew Cole Introduction The Medieval Turn in Theory Remember when theory came to town? You could spill your coffee about it —​what with all the buzz in the humanities in North America about the new interpretive models, all that excited...

...Janell Watson © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Janell Watson Introduction: Franco-Italian Political Theory The American engagement with late twentieth-century French philosophy and criticism initially focused on questions of language and text. Barthes, Derrida, and Bataille...

...Diana Fuss © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Bain Ken . What the Best College Teachers Do . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2004 . De Man Paul . The Resistance to Theory . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1986 . Hartman Geoffrey . “Looking Back...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Schamus Interview 91 Jeffrey J. Williams The Work of Production in the Age of Theory: An Interview with James Schamus CEO of Focus Features, James Schamus is a major film producer...

...Josh Lukin © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Josh Lukin The Wiggle Room of Theory: An Interview with Samuel Delany To many, Samuel Delany is the radical gay black New York critic who has written on the roles of race, sexual orientation, New York City, and semiotics in his...

..., Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2000 . R. Benjamin Bateman The Future of Queer Theory (on Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive [Duke UP, 2004]) Since its inception, queer theory has provoked readers with its radical...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Jeffrey J. Williams The Clarity of Theory: An Interview with Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler is a leading expositor of contemporary literary theory. His book, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics...

... Michaels Walter . “Against Theory.” 1982 . Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism . Ed. Mitchell W. J. T. . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1985 . Leitch Vincent B. ., eds. The Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory . New York : Norton , 2001 . Michaels...

... by emphasizing form over content and turns theory into crisis management on behalf of the ruling class. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 Fredric Jameson Wal-Mart dialectics redistribution theory Marxism Works Cited Althusser Louis . 1996 . “Contradiction and Overdetermination.” In For Marx...

...George Caffentzis After a short historical and conceptual introduction to the labor theory of value (LTV), it is noted that the oil industry presents a paradox to the LTV. How is it that oil companies employ relatively few workers and invest in a relatively large amount of machinery and still...

... . Jennifer Cotter New Materialism and the Labor Theory of Value At a historical moment in which more areas and levels of existence and life are being subordinated to global commodity production and exchange and are subject to the exigencies of economic and ecological crisis, “new materialism” has...

... in such formalizations that the heuristic force of what we call theory lies: these formalizations are what “force,” in Alain Badiou's sense, new knowledges, something I will show in what follows by both outlining some of Lacan's formalizations and offering a few of my own. Furthermore, in the second half of this essay...

...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...

...Gregory Jones-Katz Abstract In the last three decades of the twentieth century, theory became a “cognitive good” throughout the American academic humanities. The rise and uses of this new high-tech good fit the “new spirit of capitalism,” to quote Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's 2018 book...

...Anna Ioanes In the wake of the linguistic turn, scholars have turned to affect and to aesthetics to account for textual experiences that exceed critical frameworks of representation and critique. Bringing formalist analysis and affect theory to bear on one another, recent works of literary, art...

...Janell Watson In this interview, political theorist Bonnie Honig discusses her career and her influential writings on contemporary democratic theory, the politics of immigration, the figure of the foreigner, the figure of Antigone, and the tensions between sovereignty and law in times of emergency...

...Nidesh Lawtoo In this interview, J. Hillis Miller and Nidesh Lawtoo take one of the most influential concepts in Western aesthetics, mimēsis , as an Ariadne’s thread to retrace the major turns in Miller’s career and, by extension, to promote a re- turn of mimesis in literary theory and criticism...

..., seeking instead to expose the term lyric as an ideological reading practice that separates the text from its historical context. This essay examines some of the ways in which four new books on poetry by Siobhan Phillips, Joel Nickels, Christopher Nealon, and Oren Izenberg contribute to lyric theory...

...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

...Janell Watson In this interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, known for her important contributions to literary theory and for an unusual interdisciplinary career, interviewer Janell Watson gives a brief account of Smith’s early interests in philosophy and science, her career as a teacher...