After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2016
208 pages
978-0-8173-9015-0 (ISBN)
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Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading 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 alter the practice of reading and do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?
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Gregory S. Jay | David L. Miller
After Strange Texts
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05/1985
The University of Alabama Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature? - Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller
- Tea and Totality: The Demand of Theory on Critical Style - Geoffrey H. Hartman
- From the Piazza to the Enchanted Isles: Melville's Textual Rovings - Edgar A. Dryden
- Hawthorne's Genres: The Letter of the Law Appliquée - Peggy Kamuf
- Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment - Elizabeth A. Meese
- Shakespeare and the Exorcists - Stephen Greenblatt
- Auerbach's Mimesis: Figural Structure and Historical Narrative - Timothy Bahti
- Between Dialectics and Deconstruction: Derrida and the Reading of Marx - Andew Parker
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Contributors
- Index
