Full Description
In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?
Contents
The role of theory in the study of literature? / Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller -- Tea and totality / Geoffrey H. Hartmen -- From the piazza to the enchanted isles : Melville's textual rovings / Edgar A. Dryden -- Hawthorne' genres / Peggy Kamuf -- Sexual politics and critical judgment / Elizabeth A. Meese -- Shakespeare and the exorcists / Stephen Greenblatt -- Auerbach's Mimesis / Timothy Bahti -- Between dialectics and deconstruction / Andrew Parker.
