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Theory's Empire An Anthology of Dissent

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ISBN-10: 0231134177

ISBN-13: 9780231134170

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Corral

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Daphne Patai is professor of Brazilian literature and literary theory at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of a number of books on literature, utopian studies, and the culture wars, most recently Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies, Revised Edition (with Noretta Koertge).Will H. Corral teaches Spanish American literature and culture at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author or editor of several books in Spanish, the most recent of which is El error del acierto (contra ciertos dogmas latinoamericanistas); he lives in Davis, California.

Theory Rising Introduction
Theory, What Theory?
Destroying Literary Studies
Traveling Through American Criticism
The Rise and Fall of "Practical Criticism": From I. A. Richards to Barthes and Derrida
The Power and Limits of Literary Theory
Is Theory to Blame?
Theory, Theories, and Principles
Linguistic Turns Introduction
The Linguistic Unconscious: Saussure and the Post-Saussureans
Literary Theory and Its Discontents
The Quandaries of the Referent
The Great Dichotomy
The Deconstructive Angel
Empire Building Introduction
The Grand Academy of Theory
Theorrhea and Kulturkritik
Masters and Demons
The Debate Over the Wartime Writings of Paul de Man: The Language of Setting the Record Straight
Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
Preface for a Post-Postcolonial Criticism
Theory as a Profession Introduction
Author! Author! Reconstructing Roland Barthes
The French Intellectual Habitus and Literary Culture
Social Constructionism: Philosophy for the Academic Workplace
Bad Writing
Everyman an <$$$>bermensch: The Culture of Cultural Studies
The End of Theory, the Rise of the Profession: A Rant in Search of Responses
Identities Introduction
The Cant of Identity
The Gender Fallacy
Feminism's Perverse Effects
Queer Theory, Literature, and the Sexualization of Everything: The Gay Science
Battle of the Bien-Pensant
Theory as Surrogate Politics Introduction
Oppositional Opposition
Silence Is Consent, or Curse Ye Meroz!
Criticism as Displacement
Thick Aestheticism and Thin Nativism
Casualties of the Culture Wars
Restoring Reason Introduction
Rationality/Science
The Furor Over Impostures Intellectuelles: What Is All the Fuss About?
The Sleep of Reason
Staying for an Answer: The Untidy Process of Groping for Truth
What Is Social Construction?
Postcolonial Science Studies: Ending "Epistemic Violence"
Still Reading After All These Theories... Introduction
Literature and Theory: Notes on the Research Programs of the 1980s
Changing Epochs
Making Knowledge: Bioepistemology and the Foundations of Literary Theory
Literature and Fiction
Literary Aesthetics and the Aims of Criticism
Crisis in the Humanities? Reconfiguring Literary Study for the Twenty-first Century
Introduction
A Hippocratic Oath for the Pluralist