Theory's empire : an anthology of dissent / edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral.

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0231508697
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801/.95 22

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PN81 .T445 2005eb

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Contents:

Theory Rising -- Linguistic turns -- Empire building -- Theory as a profession -- Identities -- Theory as surrogate politics -- Restoring reason -- Still reading after all these theories ...

Summary: 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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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 ...

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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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