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Theory at Yale: the strange case of deconstruction in America

By Marc , Redfield

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780823268665, 9780823268672, 0823268667, 0823268675
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2780451 bytes)
Series
Lit Z
Pages
256 páginas ; 23 cm\268
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Criticismo;Deconstrucción;Deconstrucción

Description

Introduction: The Strange Case of "Theory" -- 1. Theory, Deconstruction, and the Yale Critics -- 2. Theory and Romantic Lyric: The Case of "A slumber did my spirit seal" -- 3. What Remains: Geoffrey Hartman and the Shock of Imagination -- 4. Literature, Incorporated: Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon -- 5. Professing Theory: Paul de Man and the Institution of Reading -- 6. Querying, Quarrying: Mark Tansey's Paintings of Theory's Grand Canyon.;"This book examines the affinity between the notions of "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of a semi-fictional collective, the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, in association with the French philosopher Jacques Derrida"--

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