Reading after theory /
Cunningham, Valentine,
Reading after theory / Valentine Cunningham. - 194 pages ; 24 cm. - Blackwell manifestos . - Blackwell manifestos. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-183) and index.
What Then? What Now? -- Reading Always Comes After -- Theory, What Theory? -- The Good of Theory -- Fragments ... Ruins -- All What Jazz? Or, The Incredibly Disappearing Text -- Textual Abuse: Or, Down With Stock Responses -- Theory Shrinks -- Touching Reading -- When I Can Read My Title Clear. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era. His account examines the spread of literary theory from the 1960s, when it was considered highly contentious, to the present time, when theoretical approaches are taken for granted across a range of disciplines. Whilst acknowledging the necessity of theory for reading and recognising the good it has done, he strongly criticises it for encouraging bad reading, and for diminishing the richness, scope and human connection of texts." "Cunningham argues that theory has made texts secondary to questions of ideology, oppressions and resistance (important though they are) and proposes that what is needed in order to rescue literary studies is a return to close and 'tactful' reading. His manifesto insists on the primacy of texts over all theorising about them, and on the restoration of the human to literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.
0631221670 9780631221678 0631221689 9780631221685
2001004521
Criticism--History--20th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism
PN94 / .C86 2002
801.950904
Reading after theory / Valentine Cunningham. - 194 pages ; 24 cm. - Blackwell manifestos . - Blackwell manifestos. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-183) and index.
What Then? What Now? -- Reading Always Comes After -- Theory, What Theory? -- The Good of Theory -- Fragments ... Ruins -- All What Jazz? Or, The Incredibly Disappearing Text -- Textual Abuse: Or, Down With Stock Responses -- Theory Shrinks -- Touching Reading -- When I Can Read My Title Clear. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era. His account examines the spread of literary theory from the 1960s, when it was considered highly contentious, to the present time, when theoretical approaches are taken for granted across a range of disciplines. Whilst acknowledging the necessity of theory for reading and recognising the good it has done, he strongly criticises it for encouraging bad reading, and for diminishing the richness, scope and human connection of texts." "Cunningham argues that theory has made texts secondary to questions of ideology, oppressions and resistance (important though they are) and proposes that what is needed in order to rescue literary studies is a return to close and 'tactful' reading. His manifesto insists on the primacy of texts over all theorising about them, and on the restoration of the human to literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.
0631221670 9780631221678 0631221689 9780631221685
2001004521
Criticism--History--20th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism
PN94 / .C86 2002
801.950904