TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patai,Daphne
AU  - Corral,Wilfrido H.
TI  - Theory's empire: an anthology of dissent 
SN  - 0231508697
AV  - PN81 .T445 2005eb
U1  - 801/.95 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Critique
KW  - Littérature
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Théorie, etc
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Theory Rising -- Linguistic turns -- Empire building -- Theory as a profession -- Identities -- Theory as surrogate politics -- Restoring reason -- Still reading after all these theories
N2  - Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the
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