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Theory After Theory is a beautifully organized, accessibly written, and helpful survey of a challenging body of material. Whether you are a newcomer to literary theory or a more seasoned reader looking to refresh your memory or connect the dots, this book offers generous assessments and valuable insights at every turn. With illuminating examples and useful summaries, the book sets out to explain why literary theory had the 'massive, seismic impact' upon the field that it had. Although it may be an impossible task to describe that impact in a single volume, Theory After Theory comes as close to doing so--and doing it admirably well--as any source I have yet encountered. That it does so with breathtaking clarity makes it an invaluable book. --Devoney Looser

Theory After Theory is a must-read guide for professors and students interested in learning about the theories of the past and-as the title of the study suggests-the possibilities for creating theory in the present and future. - Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Chasqui Nicholas Birns contends that 'It is important to keep theorizing, in whatever way possible.' To keep the possibility open we need to know where theory has been. Birns' book provides exemplary knowledge. It is an admirably precise and even-handed account of the wave after wave of theory that have shaped and inspired us. Readers will find their purview refreshed by Birns' judicious re-statements and evaluations, and will find that he is a guide to the future of theory as well as to the past. - Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State University

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Nicholas Birns is Associate Teaching Professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York. He has published widely on postcolonial and modernist literature.

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