After Strange Texts
Author:   Gregory S. Jay ,  David L. Miller
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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9780817302245


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 March 2016
Format:   Paperback
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In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?

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Author:   Gregory S. Jay ,  David L. Miller
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780817302245


ISBN 10:   0817302247
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The role of theory in the study of literature? / Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller -- Tea and totality / Geoffrey H. Hartmen -- From the piazza to the enchanted isles : Melville's textual rovings / Edgar A. Dryden -- Hawthorne' genres / Peggy Kamuf -- Sexual politics and critical judgment / Elizabeth A. Meese -- Shakespeare and the exorcists / Stephen Greenblatt -- Auerbach's Mimesis / Timothy Bahti -- Between dialectics and deconstruction / Andrew Parker.

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After Strange Texts is a fine collection of essays that will help to advance discussion about the value and significance of literary theory."""" — South Atlantic Modern Language Association


After Strange Texts is a fine collection of essays that will help to advance discussion about the value and significance of literary theory. - South Atlantic Modern Language Association


After Strange Texts is a fine collection of essays that will help to advance discussion about the value and significance of literary theory. - South Atlantic Modern Language Association


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Gregory S. Jay is the author of American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. David L. Miller is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness and The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 """"Faerie Queene""""

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