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- After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
After Strange Texts is a collection of essays that will help to advance discussion about the value and significance of literary theory. The editors, Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller, open the volume with a cogent and philosophically sophisticated survey of the contemporary theoretical scene, and they argue with particular force about the "inescapability" of theory. As Jay and Miller point out, "theory" means, among other things, the techniques by which critics and scholars undertake their "practical" work; if we say we are "against" theory or claim to practice "without" theory, then we are in a real sense simply deceiving ourselves.
All scholars subscribe to theories, and these are embedded in their criticism and scholarship. Whatever the excesses of (and differences between) deconstruction, feminism, the new historicism, and the other theories that Jay and Miller review, they share a commitment to heightening the teacher/critic's self-consciousness about the labor that he or she performs.
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All scholars subscribe to theories, and these are embedded in their criticism and scholarship. Whatever the excesses of (and differences between) deconstruction, feminism, the new historicism, and the other theories that Jay and Miller review, they share a commitment to heightening the teacher/critic's self-consciousness about the labor that he or she performs.
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Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment
- pp. 85-100
- Shakespeare and the Exorcists
- pp. 101-123
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- pp. 188-189
- Contributors
- pp. 190-191
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817390150
Related ISBN(s)
9780817302238, 9780817302245
MARC Record
OCLC
967589084
Pages
207
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-05
Language
English
Open Access
No