Consequences of Theory
Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88
Published on 26. November 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-8018-4045-6 (ISBN)
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"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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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.More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4045-6 (9780801840456)
DOI
10.56021/9780801840449
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Jonathan Arac | Barbara Johnson
Consequences of Theory
Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88
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11/1990
Johns Hopkins University Press
€48.52
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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.
Content
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
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