Matthew L Reznicek
I’d love to know what #7books of #CriticalTheory #literary theory you think best explain your #academic persona #academia
Nov 26, 2022 at 8:06pmWeb
Show threadMatthew L ReznicekNov 26, 2022
I think my #7BooksOfCriticalTheory are
1. The Way of the World by Franco Moretti
2. A Cultural History of the Irish Novel by Claire Connolly
3. Crip Theory by Robert McRuer
4. Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard Davis
5. The Gothic Family Romance by Margot Backus
5. Bardic Nationalism by Katie Trumpener
6. The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland by Ina Ferris
7. Birthing the Nation by Lisa Forman Cody
Show threadCathie GrimmNov 26, 2022
@drreznicek I got my PhD in German from theory heavy Northwestern in 1998. Let’s see: Blindness & Insight, various Derrida essays, Gender Trouble, The Critique of Pure Reason, Friedrich Schlegel’s Atheneum Fragments, Novalis’ Fragments & Fichtestudien & probably The Phenomenology of Spirit.
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Nov 26, 2022
@drreznicek. Fun! #Benjamin, Origin of German Tragic Drama; #Foucault, Discipline and Punish; #Genette, Narrative Discourse; #de Man, Blindness and Insight; #Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment; #Butler, Gender Trouble; #Gates, The Signifying Monkey.
Show threadLondi LionNov 26, 2022
@drreznicek The Wretched of the Earth & Black Skin White Masks - Frantz Fanon. Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom & Towards the sociogenic principle - Sylvia Wynter. Misc Essays - Stuart Hall. Black Marxism - Cedric Robinson. #7texts #theory #literature
Show threadRuhi (she/her)Nov 27, 2022

@londilion @drreznicek what a fantastic list Londi!
I would like to add to it ! #7Books
Dear Science & Other Stories - Katherine McKittrick;
Teaching to Transgress- Bell Hooks; Pedagogy of the Oppressed- Paulo Friere;
The Dispossessed-Ursula LeGuin;
On Being Human As Praxis -Sylvia Wynter, Editor Katherine McKittrick;
The Right to
On Property- Rinaldo Walcott;
The Right to Maim- Deblity/Capacity/Disability -Jasbir Paur

#Theory #Literature #Praxis #Ideas

Show threadMatthew L ReznicekNov 27, 2022
@RpkSnyder @londilion The Right to Maim is SO good
Show threadCarly KocurekNov 26, 2022
@drreznicek Gamer Theory (Wark), Computers as Theatre (Laurel), Television (Williams), Gender Trouble (Butler), Teaching to Transgress (hooks), The Storyteller (Benjamin), The White Album (Didion)
Show threadPernille StrandeNov 26, 2022
@drreznicek This was surprisingly difficult to keep at 7-ish. But here is my list:
1) #Foucault The Order of Things/Aesthetics/Archeology of Knowledge2) #Bakhtin The Dialogic Imagination. 3) #Genette Paratexts/ Mimologics 4) #Chartier Forms and Meanings… 5) #Erickson The Economy of Literary Form 6) #Grigely Textualterity 7) #Manguel A History of Reading
Show threadThe Old Reading RoomNov 27, 2022
@Spstrande @drreznicek The Manguel is just such a great book, read by a pool one hot summer in Mallorca, has stayed with me ever since