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Book Synopsis"Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory."--'English Language Notes.
Trade ReviewHighly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory. English Language Notes.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Truth or Consequences
Chapter 1. Oppositional Professionals: Theory and the Narratives of Professionalization
Chapter 2. Theory, Pragmatisms, and Politics
Chapter 3. Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy
Chapter 4. Tolerable Falsehoods: Agency and the Interests of Theory
Chapter 5. History as Gesture; or, The Scandel of History
Chapter 6. Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge: Greenblatt, Colonialism, and the New historicism
Chapter 7. Theory in the Margin: Coetzee's Foe Reading Defoe's Crusoe/Roxana
Chapter 8. And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style
Chapter 9. The English Institute
Chapter 10. The Program
Sponsoring Institutions
Registrants, 1988
