Historicizing Theory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791459624 ISBN 13: 9780791459621

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2003

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"This book effectively addresses the challenging problem of how cultural studies strategies can be employed in analyzing the emergence of late-twentieth-century theoretical discourses; in doing so, it re-examines a wide range of such discourses, along with their discontents and critics. I am impressed by the high degree of success that the collection achieves in situating theory amid its varied historical' moments, ' including precursors and aftermaths."

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Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.

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 deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism—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, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, 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.

"An impressive and stimulating collection of essays on 'real-world' connections of recent literary and cultural theory." — Clio

"This book effectively addresses the challenging problem of how cultural studies strategies can be employed in analyzing the emergence of late-twentieth-century theoretical discourses; in doing so, it re-examines a wide range of such discourses, along with their discontents and critics. I am impressed by the high degree of success that the collection achieves in situating theory amid its varied historical 'moments,' including precursors and aftermaths." — Stephen M. Buhler, author of Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof

"Historicizing Theory traces many of the historical threads that embed contemporary criticism. Presenting original and frequently fascinating research, its diverse chapters shine light on some surprising springs of criticism, from Nazi deportations in collaborationist France to TV coverage of the Vietnam War." — Jeffrey J. Williams, editor of The Institution of Literature

Contributors include Ben Bertram, Evan Carton, Morris Dickstein, Loren Glass, Jonathan Gill Harris, Peter C. Herman, Ivo Kamps, Andrea Loselle, Lee Morrissey, James J. Paxson, Karen Raber, Marc Redfield, David Shumway, and H. Aram Veeser.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791459624
• ISBN 13: 9780791459621
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
• Herausgeber: Herman Peter C.