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Title:

Theory's empire : an anthology of dissent / edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

ix, 725 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Criticism.
Literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.

Other Authors:

Patai, Daphne, 1943-
Corral, Wilfrido H. (Wilfrido Howard)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Presentism : postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism / Graham Good. Destroying literary studies / René Wellek -- Traveling through American criticism / Tzvetan Todorov -- Rise and fall of "practical" criticism : from I.A. Richards to Barthes and Derrida / Morris Dickstein -- Power and limits of literary theory / Richard Freadman, Seumas Miller -- Is theory to blame? / John M. Ellis -- Theory, theories, and principles / Denis Donoghue -- Linguistic unconscious : Saussure and the post-Saussureans / Raymond Tallis -- Literary theory and its discontents / John R. Searle -- Quandaries of the referent / Vincent Descombes -- Great dichotomy / Wendell V. Harris -- Deconstructive angel / M.H. Abrams -- Grand Academy of Theory / Frederick Crews -- Theorrhea and Kulturkritik / J.G. Merquior -- Masters and demons / Brian Vickers -- Debate over the wartime writings of Paul de Man : the language of setting the record straight / Alan B. Spitzer -- Presentism : postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism / Graham Good.
Casualties of the culture wars / Eugene Goodheart. Author! Author! Reconsructing Roland Barthes / Clara Claiborne Park -- French intellectual habitus and literary culture / Niilo Kauppi -- Social constructionism : philosophy for the academic workplace/ Mark Bauerlein -- Bad writing / D.G. Myers -- Everyman an Übermensch : the culture of cultural studies / Stephen Adam Schwartz -- End of theory, the rise of the profession : a rant in search of responses / Geoffrey Galt Harpham -- Cant of identity / Todd Gitlin -- Gender fallacy / William C. Dowling -- Feminism's perverse effects / Elaine Marks -- Queer theory, literature, and the sexualization of everything : the gay science / Lee Siegel -- Battle of the Bien-Pensant / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Oppositional opposition / Harold Fromm -- Silence is consent, or curse ye meroz! / Richard Levin -- Criticism as displacement / Jeffrey Wallen -- Thick aestheticism and thin nativism / Russell Jacoby -- Casualties of the culture wars / Eugene Goodheart.
Hippocratic oath for the pluralist / Wayne C. Booth. Furor over impostures intellectuelles : what is all the fuss about? / Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal -- Sleep of reason / Thomas Nagel -- Staying for an answer : the untidy process of groping for truth / Susan Haack -- What is social construction? / Paul A. Boghossian -- Postcolonial science studies : ending "epistemic violence" / Meera Nanda -- Literature and theory : notes on the research programs of the 1980s / David Bromwich -- Changing epochs / Frank Kermode -- Making knowledge : biopistemology and the foundations of literary theory / Nancy Easterlin -- Literature and fiction / Peter Lamarque, Stein Haugom Olsen -- Literary aesthetics and the aims of criticism / Paisley Livingston -- Crisis in the humanities? Reconfiguring literary study for the twenty-first century / Marjorie Perloff -- Hippocratic oath for the pluralist / Wayne C. Booth.

ISBN:

9780231508698 (electronic)
0231508697 (electronic)
9780231134170 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231134177 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231134163 (alk. paper)
0231134169 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56532658

LCCN:

2004058252

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)