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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451338303321

Titolo

What's left of theory? : new work on the politics of literary theory / / edited by Judith Butler, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-96286-3

1-135-96287-1

0-203-90220-3

1-280-40718-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Essays from the English Institute

Altri autori (Persone)

ButlerJudith <1956->

GuilloryJohn

ThomasKendall

Disciplina

801/.95/0904

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - Political aspects - United States

Politics and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; From Haverstock Hill Flat to U.S. Classroom, What's Left of Theory?; ~Like Race~ Arguments; Zones of Privacy; Extreme Criticism; The Return of Realism and the Future of Contingency; Refashioning the Secular; Picturing Pleasure: Some Poems by Elizabeth Bishop; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Anorexia: The Case of Oscar Wilde; The Literary in Theory

Sommario/riassunto

A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory?  This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.