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Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts Volume 34

Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts Volume 34

Strier, Richard

Paperback

Series: New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, Book 34

Literary CriticismHistoriography

ISBN10: 0520209052
ISBN13: 9780520209053
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 31 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Taking Wittgenstein's Don't think, but look as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but pre-theoretical reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the resistant structures of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must--or cannot--say or do.

The first part of the book, Against Schemes, demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, Against Received Ideas, shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content.

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