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Consequences of Theory: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88

Consequences of Theory: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88

Arac, Jonathan
Johnson, Barbara

Paperback

Series: Selected Papers from the English Institute, Book 14

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0801840457
ISBN13: 9780801840456
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Oct 1 1990
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

In Consequences of Theory, Jonathan Arac and Barbara Johnson bring together scholars from literature, philosophy, religion, history, and law--with specialties in African-American, American, Eglish, European, feminist, and postcolonial studies--to map some of the routes taken by theory in recent years. Anthony Appiah and Donal Pease analyze key tests of the new historicism in order to offer alternative models for understaing agency and resistance. Cornal West and nancy Fraser question the quietist premises of current pragmatism; in contrast they sktech a pragmatism neither of individuals nor of communities, but of moevments. Bruce Robbins and Lynn Hunt explore the relations between disciplines and the public, specifying the functions not only of professionalism but also of scandal. Gayatri Spivak and Patricia Williams focus on questions of marginality and minority, and they meditate on the forms and styles necessary to rethink these categories in today's world.

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