1st Edition

What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

Edited By Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory is a vigorous engagement with that thorniest of critical questions: how today are theory and progressive... Read more
Contrubotrs Acknowledgments Preface 1. From Haverstock Hill Flat to uS Classroon, What's Left of Theory? 2. Like Race Arguments 3. Zones of Privacy 4. Extreme Criticism 6. The Return of Realism and the Future of Contingency 7. Refashioning the Secular 8. Picutring Pleasure: Some Poems by Elizabeth Bishop 9. The Literary in Theory

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Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas