Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a "Post" Vocabulary-- A Lab ReportAlexandru Matei, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania; Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA; and Andrei Terian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaPart I: Aesthetics1. Constructualism: Literary Evolution as Multiscalar DesignTeodora Dumitru, G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania2. Post-Aesthetics: Literature, Ontology, and Criticism as DiplomacyAlexandru Matei, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania 3. Eastethics: The Ideological Shift in NarratologyAlex Goldis, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania 4. Metapolitics: Recommitting Literature in the Populist AftermathIoana Macrea-Toma, Central European University of Budapest, Hungary5. Communality: Un-Disciplining Race, Class, and Sex in the Wake of Anti-"PC" MonomaniaAndrei Terian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania6. Anarchetype: Reading Aesthetic Form after "Structure"Corin Braga, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaPart II: Temporalities7. Post-Synchronism: "Cultural Complex," or Critical Theory's Unfinished BusinessCarmen Musat, University of Bucharest, Romania8. Post-Presentism: The Past, the Passed, and "Now" as Critical OperatorBogdan Cretu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania9. Postfuturism: Contemporaneity, Truth, and the End of World LiteratureChristian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA10. Post-Memory: The Labor of Critical Remembrance after CommunismAndreea Mironescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania11. Biofiction: Metamorphoses of Life-Writing across Criticism, Theory, and Literature Laura Cernat, Independent Scholar Part III: Critical Modes12. Geocritique: Siting, Poverty, and the Global SoutheastStefan Baghiu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania13. Neocritique: Sherlock Holmes Investigates LiteratureMihai Iovanel, G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania14. Digicriticism: Profession On(the)LineAdriana Stan, Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania15. Somatography: Writing as Incorporated Cognition, or the Body Knows MoreCaius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest, Romania16. Post-Canonicity: Curating World Literary Archives after PostmodernismCosmin Borza, Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBibliographyContributorsIndex

'Theory in the "Post" Era' brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the "post" era. Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the "post" era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the "after" - of whole paradigms, the crisis or "passing" of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural "condition," as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an "anti," "meta," or "neo" alternative, with examples ranging from "posthumanism" and "post-postmodernism" to "post-aesthetics," "postanalog" interpretation or "digicriticism," "post-presentism," "post-memory," "post-" or "neo-critique," and so forth. It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this "post" moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a "worlded" enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the "post" age.

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