Reading after theory
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Reading after theory
(Blackwell manifestos)
Blackwell, 2002
- : pbk.
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780631221678
Description
Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era. His account examines the spread of literary theory from the 1960s, when it was considered highly contentious, to the present time, when theoretical approaches are taken for granted across a range of disciplines. Whilst acknowledging the necessity of theory for reading and recognising the good it has done, he strongly criticises it for encouraging bad reading, and for diminishing the richness, scope and human connection of texts. Cunningham argues that theory has made texts secondary to questions of ideology, oppressions and resistance (important though they are) and proposes that what is needed in order to rescue literary studies is a return to close and "tactful" reading. His manifesto insists on the primacy of texts over all theorising about them, and on the restoration of the human to literary studies.
Table of Contents
1. What then? What now?2. Reading Always Comes After. 3. Theory, What Theory?4. The Good of Theory. 5. Fragments . Ruins. 6. All What Jazz? Or, The Incredible Disappearing Text. 7. Textual Abuse: Or, Down with Stock Responses. 8. Theory Stinks9. Touching Rading. 10. When I Can Read My Title Clear. Index.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780631221685
Description
Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.
Table of Contents
1. What Then? What Now?. 2. Reading Always Comes After.
3. Theory, What Theory?.
4. The Good of Theory.
5. Fragments . Ruins.
6. All What Jazz? Or, The Incredible Disappearing Text.
7. Textual Abuse: Or, Down with Stock Responses.
8. Theory Stinks.
9. Touching Rading.
10. When I Can Read My Title Clear.
Notes.
Index.
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