Theory's empire : an anthology of dissent

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Theory's empire : an anthology of dissent

edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral

Columbia University Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.

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Part I. Theory Rising Introduction 1. Theory, What Theory?, by Valentine Cunningham 2. Destroying Literary Studies, by Rene Wellek 3. Traveling Through American Criticism, by Tzvetan Todorov 4. The Rise and Fall of "Practical Criticism": From I. A. Richards to Barthes and Derrida, by Morris Dickstein 5. The Power and Limits of Literary Theory, by Richard Freadman and Seumas Miller 6. Is Theory to Blame?, by John M. Ellis 7. Theory, Theories, and Principles, by Denis Donoghue Part II. Linguistic Turns Introduction 8. The Linguistic Unconscious: Saussure and the Post-Saussureans, by Raymond Tallis 9. Literary Theory and Its Discontents, by John R. Searle 10. The Quandaries of the Referent, by Vincent Descombes 11. The Great Dichotomy, by Wendell V. Harris 12. The Deconstructive Angel, by M. H. Abrams Part III. Empire Building Introduction 13. The Grand Academy of Theory, by Frederick Crews 14. Theorrhea and Kulturkritik, by J. G. Merquior 15. Masters and Demons, by Brian Vickers 16. The Debate Over the Wartime Writings of Paul de Man: The Language of Setting the Record Straight, by Alan B. Spitzer 17. Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, by Graham Good 18. Preface for a Post-Postcolonial Criticism, by Erin O'Connor Part IV. Theory as a Profession Introduction 19. Author! Author! Reconstructing Roland Barthes, by Clara Claiborne Park 20. The French Intellectual Habitus and Literary Culture, by Niilo Kauppi 21. Social Constructionism: Philosophy for the Academic Workplace, by Mark Bauerlein 22. Bad Writing, by D. G. Myers 23. Everyman an 'bermensch: The Culture of Cultural Studies, by Stephen Adam Schwartz 24. The End of Theory, the Rise of the Profession: A Rant in Search of Responses, by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Part V. Identities Introduction 25. The Cant of Identity, by Todd Gitlin 26. The Gender Fallacy, by William C. Dowling 27. Feminism's Perverse Effects, by Elaine Marks 28. Queer Theory, Literature, and the Sexualization of Everything: The Gay Science, by Lee Siegel 29. Battle of the Bien-Pensant, by K. Anthony Appiah Part VI. Theory as Surrogate Politics Introduction 30. Oppositional Opposition, by Harold Fromm 31. Silence Is Consent, or Curse Ye Meroz!, by Richard Levin 32. Criticism as Displacement, by Jeffrey Wallen 33. Thick Aestheticism and Thin Nativism, by Russell Jacoby 34. Casualties of the Culture Wars, by Eugene Goodheart Part VII. Restoring Reason Introduction 35. Rationality/Science, by Noam Chomsky 36. The Furor Over Impostures Intellectuelles: What Is All the Fuss About?, by Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal 37. The Sleep of Reason, by Thomas Nagel 38. Staying for an Answer: The Untidy Process of Groping for Truth, by Susan Haack 39. What Is Social Construction?, by Paul A. Boghossian 40. Postcolonial Science Studies: Ending "Epistemic Violence", by Meera Nanda Part VIII. Still Reading After All These Theories... Introduction 41. Literature and Theory: Notes on the Research Programs of the 1980s, by David Bromwich 42. Changing Epochs, by Frank Kermode 43. Making Knowledge: Bioepistemology and the Foundations of Literary Theory, by Nancy Easterlin 44. Literature and Fiction, by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen 45. Literary Aesthetics and the Aims of Criticism, by Paisley Livingston 46. Crisis in the Humanities? Reconfiguring Literary Study for the Twenty-first Century, by Marjorie Perloff Coda Introduction 47. A Hippocratic Oath for the Pluralist, by Wayne C. Booth

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