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"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.



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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 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
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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/11/1990
      ISBN13: 9780801840456, 978-0801840456
      ISBN10: 0801840457
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      Description

      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 Review
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: 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

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