Historicizing theory / edited by Peter C. Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herman, Peter C., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.

Contents:

Intro

Historicizing Theory

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: The Resistance to Historicizing Theory PETER C. HERMAN

1. The Holocaust, French Poststructuralism, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics EVAN CARTON

2. Michel Foucault and the Specter of War KAREN RABER

3. Historicizing Paul de Man's Master Trope Prosopopeia: Belgium's Trauma of 1940, the Nazi Volkskörper, and Versions of the Allegorical Body Politic JAMES J. PAXSON

4. "Nostalgeria" and "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" LEE MORRISSEY

5. Jean Baudrillard and May '68 An Acoustic Archaeology ANDREA LOSELLE

6. Stephen Greenblatt's "X"-Files The Rhetoric of Containment and Invasive Disease in "Invisible Bullets" and "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" JONATHAN GIL HARRIS

7. New Historicizing the New Historicism

or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968? IVO KAMPS

8. The End of Culture LOREN GLASS

9. Literature, Incorporated Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon MARC REDFIELD

10. The Sixties, the New Left, and the Emergence of Cultural Studies in the United States DAVID R. SHUMWAY

11. The Postcolonial Godfather H. ARAM VEESER

12. The Spectrality of the Sixties BENJAMIN BERTRAM

13. Afterword: Historicism and Its Limits MORRIS DICKSTEIN

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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H

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K

L

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N

O

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Q

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T

U

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Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8568-4

1-4237-3933-7

OCLC:

62757592