H G Toth
Biographic Data
| ID | 41579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H G Toth |
| GIVEN NAMES | H G |
| FAMILY NAME | Toth |
| SIGNATURE | TOTH H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2865-7162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading and ideology
This article examines social debates on mass reading in Britain, linking them to the free public libraries movement of the mid-19th century. It argues that free public libraries were defended on the grounds of a piecemeal, eclectic, but nonetheless identifiable vernacular theory of ideology that emerged over the course of a century. This theory treated literary texts as containers of ideas and values that could be transmitted to readers. It respo…
Reading in the Global Literary Marketplace
Materialist scholarship on postcolonial literature’s relationship with global publishing industries has radically altered the ways in which we conceive of writers’ and texts’ postcolonial agency. Its interest in the foreclosures of the marketplace has made it difficult to identify texts and practices of reading alike as postcolonial, as textualist traditions have long done so. Yet, even if somewhat devalued by materialist postcolonialisms, readin…
Spivak's Planetarity and the Limits of Professional Reading
This article argues that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's notion of planetarity is premised on a practice of reading. Reading for the planet involves deferring the world in order to participate in the text world and its latent re(-)production of ourselves and our world. To the extent that this ethical attention moves us toward different horizons of thinking and feeling, it may also engender political action in the public realm. Reading for Spivak is …
A dialectical literary canon
This article proposes a literary canon founded on dialectical principles, using South Africa as our historical example. In order to do so, we first trace the development of dialectical thought, moving from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to Karl Marx to Steve Biko; from Eurocentrism to class consciousness to Black Consciousness. Second, we plot the influence of Hegel and Marx as well as Sartre and Fanon on Biko’s elaboration of dialectics for the B…
Reading and ideology
This article examines social debates on mass reading in Britain, linking them to the free public libraries movement of the mid-19th century. It argues that free public libraries were defended on the grounds of a piecemeal, eclectic, but nonetheless identifiable vernacular theory of ideology that emerged over the course of a century. This theory treated literary texts as containers of ideas and values that could be transmitted to readers. It respo…
A dialectical literary canon
This article proposes a literary canon founded on dialectical principles, using South Africa as our historical example. In order to do so, we first trace the development of dialectical thought, moving from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to Karl Marx to Steve Biko; from Eurocentrism to class consciousness to Black Consciousness. Second, we plot the influence of Hegel and Marx as well as Sartre and Fanon on Biko’s elaboration of dialectics for the B…
Spivak's Planetarity and the Limits of Professional Reading
This article argues that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's notion of planetarity is premised on a practice of reading. Reading for the planet involves deferring the world in order to participate in the text world and its latent re(-)production of ourselves and our world. To the extent that this ethical attention moves us toward different horizons of thinking and feeling, it may also engender political action in the public realm. Reading for Spivak is …
A dialectical literary canon
This article proposes a literary canon founded on dialectical principles, using South Africa as our historical example. In order to do so, we first trace the development of dialectical thought, moving from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to Karl Marx to Steve Biko; from Eurocentrism to class consciousness to Black Consciousness. Second, we plot the influence of Hegel and Marx as well as Sartre and Fanon on Biko’s elaboration of dialectics for the B…
Reading in the Global Literary Marketplace
Materialist scholarship on postcolonial literature’s relationship with global publishing industries has radically altered the ways in which we conceive of writers’ and texts’ postcolonial agency. Its interest in the foreclosures of the marketplace has made it difficult to identify texts and practices of reading alike as postcolonial, as textualist traditions have long done so. Yet, even if somewhat devalued by materialist postcolonialisms, readin…
Reading and ideology
This article examines social debates on mass reading in Britain, linking them to the free public libraries movement of the mid-19th century. It argues that free public libraries were defended on the grounds of a piecemeal, eclectic, but nonetheless identifiable vernacular theory of ideology that emerged over the course of a century. This theory treated literary texts as containers of ideas and values that could be transmitted to readers. It respo…
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