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Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory--a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as cleconstruction, New Historicism, and post colonialism--has often been derided as a mere "relic" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War 11, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, "Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today.

Book details

• Full title: Historicizing Theory
• Author: Peter C. Herman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324
• EAN: 9780791459621
• ISBN: 0791459624
• ID: 11515125
• Publisher: STATE UNIV OF NY PR
• Weight: 431 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 149 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: December 2003

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