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Theory at Yale : The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America / / Marc Redfield



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Autore: Redfield Marc Visualizza persona
Titolo: Theory at Yale : The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America / / Marc Redfield Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
Disciplina: 801/.95
801.95
Soggetto topico: Criticism
Deconstruction
Soggetto non controllato: Geoffrey Hartman
Harold Bloom
J. Hillis Miller
Jacques Derrida
Paul de Man
Yale Critics
aesthetics
deconstruction
theory
Classificazione: LIT006000LIT004130PHI027000
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. -- 1. Theory, Deconstruction, and the Yale Critics -- 2. Theory and Romantic Lyric -- 3. What Remains -- 4. Literature, Incorporated -- 5. Professing Theory -- 6. Querying, Quarrying -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Theory at Yale  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6870-5
0-8232-6869-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808838003321
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Serie: Lit z.