The Literary in Theory (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

Culler, Jonathan

 
9780804753739: The Literary in Theory (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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ISBN 10: 0804753733 ISBN 13: 9780804753739
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2006

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This work explores the role of the literary in theory, with wide-ranging analysis of key concepts and disciplinary practices.

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Jonathan Culler is the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and one of the most influential literary critics in North America. His works include Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (1974), and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997). He also co-edited Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena (Stanford University Press, 2003).

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Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname “Theory,” has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning (or meaninglessness), of politics, but not theory of literature.
In this timely and wide-ranging book, Jonathan Culler, whose lucid analyses of structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction have been prized by generations of readers, explores the place of the literary in theory. If theory has sometimes neglected literature, the literary has, Culler argues, retained a crucial if misunderstood role. Culler’s account of the fortunes of the literary in theory, of the resistance to theory, and of key theoretical concepts—text, sign, interpretation, performative, and omniscience—provides valuable insight into today’s theoretical debates; and his analysis of various disciplinary practices explores the possibilities of theory for the present and the future.

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Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname Theory, has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning (or meaninglessness), of politics, but not theory of literature.
In this timely and wide-ranging book, Jonathan Culler, whose lucid analyses of structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction have been prized by generations of readers, explores the place of the literary in theory. If theory has sometimes neglected literature, the literary has, Culler argues, retained a crucial if misunderstood role. Culler s account of the fortunes of the literary in theory, of the resistance to theory, and of key theoretical concepts text, sign, interpretation, performative, and omniscience provides valuable insight into today s theoretical debates; and his analysis of various disciplinary practices explores the possibilities of theory for the present and the future.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804753733
ISBN 13 
9780804753739
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1
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294
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