"Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory."--'English Language Notes.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory. English Language Notes.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4045-6 (9780801840456)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jonathan Arac is professor of English at the University of Pittsburg and an editor of boundry. Barbara Johnson is professor of French and comparative literature at Harvard University. She is author of Defigurations du langage poetique and translator of Jacques Derrida's La Dissemination.
Herausgeber*in
University of Pittsburgh
Harvard University
Introduction: Truth or Consequences
Chapter 1. Oppositional Professionals: Theory and the Narratives of Professionalization
Chapter 2. Theory, Pragmatisms, and Politics
Chapter 3. Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy
Chapter 4. Tolerable Falsehoods: Agency and the Interests of Theory
Chapter 5. History as Gesture; or, The Scandel of History
Chapter 6. Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge: Greenblatt, Colonialism, and the New historicism
Chapter 7. Theory in the Margin: Coetzee's Foe Reading Defoe's Crusoe/Roxana
Chapter 8. And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style
Chapter 9. The English Institute
Chapter 10. The Program
Sponsoring Institutions
Registrants, 1988
