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The emperor redressed : critiquing critical theory / edited with an introduction by Dwight Eddins.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (18th : 1992 : University of Alabama)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
- American literature.
- English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
- English literature.
- Deconstruction--Congresses.
- Deconstruction.
- Criticism--English-speaking countries--Congresses.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable. The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therin, by a group of our most prominent scholars. These scholars were charged with examining the truth-value, methodology, practice, and humanistic status of poststructuralist theories and with speculating on what their conclusions portend for the future of theory. They provi
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Dwight Eddins; What Is a Humanistic Criticism? - M.H. Abrams; The End of the Poststructuralist Era - Frederick Crews; The Current Polarization of Literary Studies - Richard Levin; Time and the Intelligentsia: A Patchwork in Nine Parts, with Loopholes - Gary Saul Morson; The Agony of Feminism: Why Feminist Theory Is Necessary After All - Nina Baym; Confessions of a Reluctant Critic; or, The Resistance to Literature - Ihab Hassan; Deconstruction After the Fall - David Lehman; The Poetic Fallacy - Paisley Livingston
- Literary Theory and Its Discontents - John R. SearlePanel Discussion; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Papers and concluding panel discussion of the Eighteenth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature held Oct. 8-10, 1992, at the University of Alabama.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8791-9
- 0-585-22833-7
- OCLC:
- 44956116
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