Historicizing Theory
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Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.
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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.
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Historicizing Theory
Historicizing Theory,Peter C. Herman,State University of New York Press,0791459624,20th century,Criticism,History,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Movements - Deconstruction,Semiotics & Theory
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