Reading After Theory

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-22168-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cunningham, Valentine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What Then? What Now?.

2. Reading Always Comes After.

3. Theory, What Theory?.

4. The Good of Theory.

5. Fragments. Ruins.

6. All What Jazz? Or, The Incredible Disappearing Text.

7. Textual Abuse: Or, Down with Stock Responses.

8. Theory Stinks.

9. Touching Rading.

10. When I Can Read My Title Clear.

Notes.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz in Germany. His previous publications include British Writers of the Thirties (1988), Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975) and In the Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts and History (Blackwell, 1993). He is the editor of The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (Blackwell, 2000).