TY - BOOK AU - Eddins,Dwight ED - Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature TI - The emperor redressed: critiquing critical theory SN - 0585228337 AV - PN98.D43 E48 1995eb U1 - 801/.95/0973 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Criticism KW - Congresses KW - Deconstruction KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - American literature KW - Critique KW - Congrès KW - Déconstruction KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Semiotics & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Dekonstruktion KW - gnd KW - Kritik KW - Literatur KW - Literatuurtheorie KW - gtt KW - Poststructuralisme KW - USA KW - Englisch KW - swd KW - Tuscaloosa KW - United States KW - Electronic books KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Congressen (vorm) KW - local N1 - 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; What is 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. Searle; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therein, by a group of prominent scholars and critics: M.H. Abrams, Nina Baym, Frederick Crews, Ihab Hassan, David Lehman, Richard Levin, Paisley Livingston, Saul Morson, and John Searle; Assembled at The University of Alabama for the 1992 symposium from which this book takes its title, these scholars were charged with the task of 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. Some of the deficiencies "uncovered" in the emperor's apparel include the failure of poststructuralist theory to answer to the complexities of literary experience, its tendency to be self-ratifying, its betrayal of the feminist achievement, its conflation of style and logic, its attempt to impose apocalyptic finalities on history's open-endedness, and its ignorance of much in current language philosophy. The writings of Jacques Derrida, in particular, come in for skeptical scrutiny by Abrams, Livingston, and Searle. The book concludes with a lively panel discussion in which the audience joins the fray UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=32495 ER -