Talking Walking: Essays in Cultural Criticism

by Rachel Bowlby

When something called theory first broke onto the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading: new methods and subjects, and also new words to speak them. The syllabus and the styles would never be the same, and reading was proudly claimed as a mode of social critique. The short pieces brought together in Talking Walking engage with all sorts of arguments then, now and earlier about the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845199111
• ISBN13: 9781845199111
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"