Finalmente , Beyond Literary Studies es una lectura necesaria para toda persona que entre al campo de los estudios literarios o empiece como un estudiante de posgrado de inglés o un miembro principiante del profesorado de un departamento de humanidades .
Palabras clave : Posestructuralismo , teoría literaria , Leslie Fiedler , Imaginología , Jacques Derrida , estudios literarios
Beyond Literary Studies : A Counter-Theoretical Approach . Savoye , Daniel Ferreras . Jefferson , North Carolina : McFarland & Company , Inc ., 2017 .
Daniel Ferreras Savoye ’ s poststructuralist takedown , Beyond Literary Studies : A Counter-Theoretical Approach , is a compelling invective that arrives at a strange moment in the history of literary studies and higher education . Ten years ago , this lacerating look at the lunacy ( and long con ) of literary criticism would have been more satisfying and perhaps even persuasive enough to make a few academics reconsider the prioritization of theory over the literature itself . The book ’ s rallying cry to include “ nontraditional narratives ”— graphic novels , cinema , rock music — might have had a better chance at stirring within young scholars a desire to explore , as Savoye calls them , “ imaginary parallel dimensions .” Savoye ’ s term excludes documentaries , autobiographies , political op-eds , hardcore pornography , sentimental romance novels , and stuntcentric YouTube videos , yet embraces non-formulaic works like HBO ’ s pioneering fantasy epic Game of Thrones and Stephen King ’ s Misery , a meta-horror novel that addresses “ the theme of literary creation .”
But we are now in a remarkable , up-is-down-and-downis-up era , when liberal college students and faculty demand safe spaces from microaggressions and call for censorship on campuses and across the Internet , even as conservatives argue on behalf of the First ( and Second ) Amendments . Adding fire to this fuel is the growing # MeToo movement over sexual harassment , which having engulfed Hollywood now threatens to rip through academia . Given
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