Preface

Abstract

The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (YWCCT) is a companion to The Year’s Work in English Studies (YWES), and like that journal it provides a narrative bibliography of books and articles published in the field. Volume 23 of YWCCT is a transitional affair. Whereas previous issues of the journal have surveyed work published two years earlier, from volume 24 (2016) onwards we will reduce that gap to one year in order to provide readers with a more up-to-date publication. To make that shift possible, the present volume covers work published in 2013 and 2014 – with some overlap into adjacent years where relevant – under the following headings: Animal Studies; Disability Studies; Psychoanalysis; Economic Criticism; Modern European Philosophy; Poetics; Media; Film Theory; Drama and Performance Studies; Feminisms; Postcolonial Theory; Theory on Theory; Popular Culture: Music; Black Critical and Cultural Theory; Ecocriticism; Visual Culture; Religion, Spirituality and Secularism; and Science and Medicine. As the chapters show, debate within and across these groupings is lively and attests to a vibrant interdisciplinarity and ever-shifting foci. The editors continue to work to find ways of mapping the changing landscape of critical and cultural theory by incorporating new topics while not overlooking developments within more established debates.