Jerrold E. Hogle
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474427777
- eISBN:
- 9781474465083
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427777.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This opening essay traces the persistent interplay between theory and the Gothic mode from the very beginning of the latter's rise in the eighteenth century. Then it proceeds to show how the Gothic ...
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This opening essay traces the persistent interplay between theory and the Gothic mode from the very beginning of the latter's rise in the eighteenth century. Then it proceeds to show how the Gothic and theory keep weaving into and out of each other, even as recently as the twenty-first century. That brief history sets up this volume's fundamental principle: that the Gothic and theory are so interactive in affecting and inspiring each other that many Gothic fictions are theoretical advances in aesthetics and culture just as much as certain kinds of theory are helpful in explaining the Gothic because they are already undercurrents in Gothic formations themselves. Finally, by providing concise definitions of the theoretical assumptions included here, this introduction sets up each of the following chapters as distinctive in revealing the Gothic-Theory interplay and how it has worked in particular cultural realms.Less
This opening essay traces the persistent interplay between theory and the Gothic mode from the very beginning of the latter's rise in the eighteenth century. Then it proceeds to show how the Gothic and theory keep weaving into and out of each other, even as recently as the twenty-first century. That brief history sets up this volume's fundamental principle: that the Gothic and theory are so interactive in affecting and inspiring each other that many Gothic fictions are theoretical advances in aesthetics and culture just as much as certain kinds of theory are helpful in explaining the Gothic because they are already undercurrents in Gothic formations themselves. Finally, by providing concise definitions of the theoretical assumptions included here, this introduction sets up each of the following chapters as distinctive in revealing the Gothic-Theory interplay and how it has worked in particular cultural realms.
R. David Lankes
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262529082
- eISBN:
- 9780262334600
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262529082.003.0004
- Subject:
- Information Science, Library Science
Knowledge is created through conversation – if one is in the knowledge business, one is in the conversation business. The inadequacy of the term “information” is discussed, and a pragmatic model of ...
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Knowledge is created through conversation – if one is in the knowledge business, one is in the conversation business. The inadequacy of the term “information” is discussed, and a pragmatic model of knowledge is presented based upon Conversation Theory.Less
Knowledge is created through conversation – if one is in the knowledge business, one is in the conversation business. The inadequacy of the term “information” is discussed, and a pragmatic model of knowledge is presented based upon Conversation Theory.
