Overview
"Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory—a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism—has often been derided as a mere ""relic"" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today."
Full Product Details
Author: Peter C. Herman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780791459614
ISBN 10: 0791459616
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 04 December 2003
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock 
Table of Contents
"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Resistance to Historicizing Theory Peter C. Herman 1. The Holocaust, French Poststructuralism, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics Evan Carton 2. Michel Foucault and the Specter of War Karen Raber 3. Historicizing Paul de Man's Master Trope Prosopopeia: Belgium's Trauma of 1940, the Nazi Volkskörper, and Versions of the Allegorical Body Politic James J. Paxson 4. ""Nostalgeria"" and ""Structure, Sign, Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"" Lee Morrissey 5. Jean Baudrillard and May '68: An Acoustic Archaeology Andrea Loselle 6. Stephen Greenblatt's ""X""-Files: The Rhetoric of Containment and Invasive Disease in ""Invisible Bullets"" and ""The Sources of Soviet Conduct"" Jonathan Gil Harris 7. New Historicizing the New Historicism; or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968? Ivo Kamps 8. The End of Culture Loren Glass 9. Literature, Incorporated: Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon Marc Redfield 10. The Sixties, the New Left, and the Emergence of Cultural Studies in the United States David R. Shumway 11. The Postcolonial Godfather H. Aram Veeser 12. The Spectrality of the Sixties Benjamin Bertram 13. Afterword: Historicism and Its Limits Morris Dickstein Contributors Index"
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"""This book effectively addresses the challenging problem of how cultural studies strategies can be employed in analyzing the emergence of late-twentieth-century theoretical discourses; in doing so, it re-examines a wide range of such discourses, along with their discontents and critics. I am impressed by the high degree of success that the collection achieves in situating theory amid its varied historical' moments, ' including precursors and aftermaths."""
This book effectively addresses the challenging problem of how cultural studies strategies can be employed in analyzing the emergence of late-twentieth-century theoretical discourses; in doing so, it re-examines a wide range of such discourses, along with their discontents and critics. I am impressed by the high degree of success that the collection achieves in situating theory amid its varied historical' moments, ' including precursors and aftermaths.
Author Information
Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. He is the author and editor of many books, including Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy, also published by SUNY Press.
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