After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-8173-0224-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?
Reviews / Votes
After Strange Texts is a fine collection of essays that will help to advance discussion about the value and significance of literary theory."" - South Atlantic Modern Language AssociationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 black & white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-0224-5 (9780817302245)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gregory S. Jay is the author of American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History.
David L. Miller is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness and The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 ""Faerie Queene""
David L. Miller is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness and The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 ""Faerie Queene""
Content
The role of theory in the study of literature? / Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller -- Tea and totality / Geoffrey H. Hartmen -- From the piazza to the enchanted isles : Melville's textual rovings / Edgar A. Dryden -- Hawthorne' genres / Peggy Kamuf -- Sexual politics and critical judgment / Elizabeth A. Meese -- Shakespeare and the exorcists / Stephen Greenblatt -- Auerbach's Mimesis / Timothy Bahti -- Between dialectics and deconstruction / Andrew Parker.