Background
Leitch, Vincent Barry was born on September 18, 1944 in Hempstead, New York, United States. Son of Eugene Vincent and Lucile Jean (Amplo) Leitch.
(In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps ou...)
In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature. * Argues that the field of theory in late postmodern consumer society has become overburdened with new ideas, and that there is an essential need for guides and signposts in this complex field* Maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature* Explores the engagement of theory with such phenomena as globalization and postmodernism, multiculturalism and cultural wars, plus the rise of neoliberalism and the corporate university* Highlights the current reconfiguration of critical reading and its potential future
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Leitch argues for the use of poststructural theory in cultural criticism. He maintains that deconstruction remains crucial for a truly critical approach to cultural studies. Literary critics now frequently use sociological, historical, political, and institutional methods of inquiry. This turn toward "dis-course" and away from "literature" has led to a resurgence of cultural criticism, a mode of analysis revitalized and reformed by the arrival of "theory". Leitch illustrates the weak points of influential predecessors, showing how poststructuralism offers useful advances over reigning modes of critical inquiry. Leitch develops positions on key topics: social formations and cultural critique; authorship and intention; "poetic" discourse and the social text; literary genre and cultural convention; minority literatures and "general poetics"; textual interpretation and assessment; institutional theory and analysis; and Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and poststructuralism. He draws on the work of Barthes, Deleuze, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Kristeva, Lentricchia, Lyotard, Said, and Scholes - whose work he does not hesitate to criticize.
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The ideal prelude to the study of deconstructive theory for the as-yet-uninitiated reader. Leitch uses in-depth analyses, surveys of historical background, and helpful overviews to address the questions posed by the major figures―Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes Foucault―then penetrates and displays the subtle intricacies of their answers.
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Through informative, original, and incisive case studies in postmodern economics, philosophy, literary criticism, feminism, pedagogy, poetry, painting, historiography, and cultural studies, this book demonstrates that disorganization and disaggregation characterize postmodern times. Postmodern phenomena, Leitch argues, resemble imploded geological formations with historical strata in kaleidoscopic disarray, and that neither economics, nor politics, nor culture escapes this novel form. Among the influential figures analyzed are Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, John Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Henry Giroux, Stanley Aronowitz, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, J. Hillis Miller, Pentti Saarikoski, and Julian Schnabel.
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literary and cultural studies educator
Leitch, Vincent Barry was born on September 18, 1944 in Hempstead, New York, United States. Son of Eugene Vincent and Lucile Jean (Amplo) Leitch.
Bachelor, Hofstra University, 1966. Master of Arts, Villanova University, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, University Florida, 1972.
Postdoc, University California, Irvine, 1978.
Postdoctoral fellow School Criticism and Theory, University California, Irvine, 1978. Interim assistant professor University Florida, Gainesville, 1972-1973. From assistant professor to professor English Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 1973-1986.
Professor English and Comparative Literature Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1986—1997, co-director English and philosophy doctoral program, 1986-1993. Paul and Carol Daube Sutton chair English University Oklahoma, Norman, since 1997, George Lynn Cross research professor English, since 1997. Member advisory board Modern Fiction Studies, 1992—1997, Symploke, since 1995.
Reviewer National Endowment of the Humanities, 1985—1988. Moss chair of excellence University Memphis, 1991. Senior Fulbright lecturer University Tampere, Finland, 1979.
Visiting professor University Debrecen, Hungary, 2002, University Missouri, 2000, Florida Atlantic University, 2003. Honorary professor Soochow University, China, 2005.
(Through informative, original, and incisive case studies ...)
(In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps ou...)
(The ideal prelude to the study of deconstructive theory f...)
(Leitch argues for the use of poststructural theory in cul...)
(American Studies, American History, Literary Criticism)
(-- American Literature)
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Member Modern Language Association (publications committee 1990-1993, assembly delegate 1990-1995, chair organizing committee 1995, chair ad hoc committee on governance issues 1995, member 1996, executive committee literature criticism division 1994-1998, executive committee teaching as a profession division since 2007), Cultural Studies Association, Society for Critical Exchange (board directors 1978-1983, since 2007), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, American Comparative Literature Association, South Central Modern Language Association.
Married Jill Robin Berman, May 20, 1970 (divorced May 1987). Children: Kristin M., Rory G.