University Press of America
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978-0-7618-3465-6 • Paperback • September 2006 • $70.99 • (£55.00)
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Ranjan Ghosh is a Professor in the Department of English at Wroclaw University in Poland. He has published numerous articles on comparative aesthetics, critical theory, Indian English Literature, historical theory and Indian historiography.
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 I. (In)fusion Approach: The Critical Manifesto
Part 3 II. (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: 'Thinking' Text and (In)fusion Theory; Postcoloniality, Reading, and Theory; The Ethics of (In)fusion; Cyberspace: (Im)porting (In)fusion Theory; Post-colonial Horizon
Part 4 III. (In)fusionizing a Few Indian English Novels: The Epigon Coming the First: Midnight's Children as the Postmodern Authentic; Taking "Experience" Seriously in Anita Desai's The Village By the Sea; "Tents blooming in the coconu
Part 5 IV. Epilogue
Chapter 6 Writing, Indian English Literature and (In)fusion
Chapter 7 Index
Chapter 8 About the Contributors
Chapter 9 About the Editor
We have heard about the death of theory for a decade, but of course the real question is what are the possibilities of theory now. This volume, with its sterling cast of contributors, offers some answers. It argues for a programmatic heterogeneity, fusing theories without disciplinary prejudice.
— Jeffrey J. Williams, Editor, Editor,The Minnesota Review; Co-Editor The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Theory has always been interdisciplinary in its aims and purposes. But with the proliferation of Theory in the last decades, theories tended to degenerate into mere variants of the outmoded disciplinary approaches. So what we presently need, above all, is an interdisciplinary approach to Theory. This is what the (In)fusion paradigm proposed in this volume admirably realizes. It does so not only by means of theoretical reflection, but by also giving convincing examples of what the new paradigm may bringgg
— Frank Ankersmit, Groningen University
Theory has always been interdisciplinary in its aims and purposes. But with the proliferation of Theory in the last decades, theories tended to degenerate into mere variants of the outmoded disciplinary approaches. So what we presently need, above all, is an interdisciplinary approach to Theory. This is what the (In)fusion paradigm proposed in this volume admirably realizes. It does so not only by means of theoretical reflection, but by also giving convincing examples of what the new paradigm may bring
— Frank Ankersmit, Groningen University