In the reading gaol : postmodernity, texts, and history

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In the reading gaol : postmodernity, texts, and history

Valentine Cunningham

Blackwell, 1994

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  • : pbk

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Includes index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780631131335

内容説明

In this punning title the central issues of contemporary literary theory compete for attention. The author's contention is that much recent theorizing, in its emphasis on closed texts, solipsistic narratives and the absence of extra-textual reference, has imprisoned reading in a gaol of its own making. Arguing for a reinstatement of presence and reference, he redirects recent theory, including in his analysis an original consideration of theological and hermeneutic background to debates about presence and logocentrism. He examines a series of key texts in this light, including "Tristram Shandy", "Jane Eyre","Middlemarch","Hard Times", "Emma", "Finnegans Wake" and "Heart of Darkness". It is an absorbing and entertaining account of the prison house of criticism. This book is intended for teachers and students of literature and literary theory and as background reading for courses in literary theory and courses in modern novels.

目次

1. Word and World: The Wor(l)d of Mrs Woolf 2. Textual Stuff 3. History in Text and Text in History 4. Facts and Fancies 5. The Return of the Repressed (i) Lexical Fix/Lexical Break (ii) Give me An Aposiopestic Break (iii) Reading Biscuits, Reading Gaol 6. Games Texta Play 7. The Logics of Para 8. The Rabbins Take It Up One After Another Index.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780631151982

内容説明

In this critical tour de force, Valentine Cunningham offers a sequence of controversial arguments in favor of the worldly stuff of texts. Animated by the massive ironies he detects within modern critical assumptions, Cunningham begins with a long and searching look at Saussure and his misappropriation by critics to create an a-historical linguistics. He extends his forensic skepticism to expose Derrida and de Man, and almost every form of "critical bandwagonism" known to either gender, from New Historicism to Post-Histoireism, to Cultural Materialism. He concludes by arguing that the deconstructive critical imagination finds its vital (and historical) apotheosis, "its big real meaning", in the parasitical dependence of (post) modernity upon Judaeo-Christian Biblicism and theology, the very kind of historical and ideological relationship it sets itself up to deny. It is this denial, Cunningham claims, that lies at the root of all our recent and current uneasiness with history. In the course of its critique this book inspects, with startling originality, texts from the Bible to Jane Eyre, Hamlet to Batman, Tristram Shandy to Finnegans Wake, concentrating particularly on classic nineteenth-century realist novels such as Emma, Hard Times, Bleak House, Middlemarch, The Trumpet Major and Heart of Darkness, as well as classic twentieth-century novels, including Beckett's Watt and Golding's Rites of Passage.

目次

1. Word and World: The Wor(l)d of Mrs Woolf. 2. Textual Stuff. 3. History in Text and Text in History. 4. Facts and Fancies. 5. The Return of the Repressed. (i) Lexical Fix/Lexical Break. (ii) Give me An Aposiopestic Break. (iii) Reading Biscuits, Reading Gaol. 6. Games Texta Play. 7. The Logics of Para. 8. The Rabbins Take It Up One After Another. Index.

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