Procedures of Resistance

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is always becoming something else as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory's procedural nature. In order to assess theory's procedural challenge to the fundamental notions that all the disciplines within an episteme have brought to the fore, it addresses these questions: What are the procedures theory has relied on? Are they a secret to its resistance, or is resistance its primary procedure? And if so, a resistance to what? Secondly, if resistance were theory's principal vehicle, at which point does resistance, conceptualized only procedurally (as resisting something, questioning anything, criticizing whatever), display hallmarks of a disciplinary closure that must call for new resistances, and perhapsfor a fundamentally another kind? The book turns to what theory does in order to avoid a partial answer to what theory is .

Explores the state of literary theory today Focuses on what theory does rather than what theory is Brings together a range of leading scholars in literary theory

Auteur

Davor Beganovi is Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Tübingen and a Research Fellow at the Slavic Department of the University of Münster, Germany. He is the author of Pripovijedanje bez kraja: "Hrvatska pripovjedäka Bosna" od Ive Andri a do Neboje Lujanovi a (2022).

Zrinka Boi is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics (2022).

Andrea Milanko is an Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Pripovjedna proza Slobodana Novaka (forthcoming).

Ivana Perica is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany, and author of Die privat-öffentliche Achse des Politischen: Das Unvernehmen zwischen Hannah Arendt und Jacques Rancière (2016).

Contenu

1: Introduction (Davor Beganovi, Zrinka Boi, Andrea Milanko, and Ivana Perica).- PART I: SYNECDOCHIC PROCEDURES.- 2: Analytical vs Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia (Aage A. Hansen-Löve).- 3: The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrovi and the Zagreb School (Predrag Brebanovi).- 4: An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure (Dagmar Burkhart).- 5: The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis (Marina Protrka timec).- PART II: PROCEDURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY.- 6: Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature (Tomislav Brlek).- 7: Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground (Stijn Vervaet).- 8: The Rhetoric of the Unsayable (Renate Lachmann).- 9: Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid (Nevena Dakovi).- PART III: PROCEDURES OF MATERIALISM 172.- 10: The Economies of Theory and Resistance (Stipe Grgas).- 11: Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim's and Lukács's Third Ways (Ivana Perica).- 12: On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs' Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) (Jurij Muraov).- 13: Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Mea Selimovi (Davor Beganovi).- PART IV: MASTERING PROCEDURE.- 14: Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures (Zrinka Boi).- 15: Literature's Theories (Svend Erik Larsen).- 16: Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric (Andrea Milanko).- PART V: RESISTING PROCEDURES.- 17: On Halt! (Vivian Liska).- 18: Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato's Seventh Letter, 344c (Nenad Ivi).- 19: The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism (Aleksandar Mijatovi).

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