LEADER 03796nam 22006975 450 001 9910798420003321 005 20211005074331.0 010 $a0-8232-6870-5 010 $a0-8232-6869-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823268696 035 $a(CKB)3710000000747363 035 $a(EBL)4705923 035 $a(OCoLC)922451653 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4803970 035 $a(DE-B1597)555493 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823268696 035 $a(OCoLC)1058995034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4705923 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000747363 100 $a20200723h20152015 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheory at Yale $eThe Strange Case of Deconstruction in America /$fMarc Redfield 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 225 0 $aLit Z 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8232-6867-5 311 0 $a0-8232-6866-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. --$t1. Theory, Deconstruction, and the Yale Critics --$t2. Theory and Romantic Lyric --$t3. What Remains --$t4. Literature, Incorporated --$t5. Professing Theory --$t6. Querying, Quarrying --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThis book examines the affinity between ?theory? and ?deconstruction? that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the ?Yale Critics?: Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. With this semi-fictional collective, theory became a media event, first in the academy and then in the wider print media, in and through its phantasmatic link with deconstruction and with ?Yale.? The important role played by aesthetic humanism in American pedagogical discourse provides a context for understanding theory as an aesthetic scandal, and an examination of the ways in which de Man?s work challenges aesthetic pieties helps us understand why, by the 1980s, he above all had come to personify ?theory. ?Combining a broad account of the ?Yale Critics? phenomenon with a series of careful reexaminations of the event of theory, Redfield traces the threat posed by language?s unreliability and inhumanity in chapters on lyric, on Hartman?s representation of the Wordsworthian imagination, on Bloom?s early theory of influence in the 1970s together with his later media reinvention as the genius of the Western Canon, and on John Guillory?s influential attempt to interpret de Manian theory as a symptom of literature?s increasing marginality. A final chapter examines Mark Tansey?s paintings Derrida Queries de Man and Constructing the Grand Canyon, paintings that offer subtle, complex reflections on the peculiar event of theory-as-deconstruction in America. 410 0$aLit z. 606 $aCriticism 606 $aDeconstruction 610 $aGeoffrey Hartman. 610 $aHarold Bloom. 610 $aJ. Hillis Miller. 610 $aJacques Derrida. 610 $aPaul de Man. 610 $aYale Critics. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $adeconstruction. 610 $atheory. 615 0$aCriticism. 615 0$aDeconstruction. 676 $a801/.95 686 $aLIT006000$aLIT004130$aPHI027000$2bisacsh 700 $aRedfield$b Marc$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01502416 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798420003321 996 $aTheory at Yale$93730163 997 $aUNINA