After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature

Gregory S. Jay & David L. Miller

ISBN 10: 0817302247 / ISBN 13: 9780817302245

Published by The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1985

About this Item

195 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Lightly warped text.

Seller Inventory # 6iDc0029

Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817302247
• ISBN 13: 9780817302245
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading

In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: how does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading and do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?

About the Author

Gregory S. Jay is the author of American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History.

David L. Miller is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness and The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 “Faerie Queene”