Falling into theory : conflicting views on reading literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Bedford/St. Martin's,
[2000]
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| Edition: | Second edtion. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Gerald Graff
- Introduction: Falling into Theory
- Part 1. Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature
- What We Have Loved, Others Will Love / Helen Vendler
- Disliking Books at an Early Age / Gerald Graff
- Rise of English / Terry Eagleton
- Introduction to Masks of Conquest / Gauri Viswanathan
- "Banking" Concept of Education / Paulo Freire
- Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy / Bell Hooks
- New Advocacy and the Old / Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Function of English at the Present Time / Richard Ohmann
- Teaching Culture / Simon During
- Demise of Disciplinary Authority / Louis Menand
- Fortunate Fall? / Robert Scholes
- Part 2. What We Read: The Literary Canon and the Curriculum after the Culture Wars
- Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation / Jane Tompkins
- Contingencies of Value / Barbara Herrnstein Smith
- Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon / Lillian S. Robinson
- What Is a Minor Literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
- Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition: From the Seen to the Told / Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- From Epistemology of the Closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Politics of Knowledge / Edward W. Said
- Introduction to A Feeling for Books / Janice A. Radway
- Telling Our Story about Teaching Literature / Alan Purves
- Canon as Cultural Capital / John Guillory
- Elegiac Conclusion / Harold Bloom
- Part 3. How We Read: Interpretive Communities and Literary Meaning
- Death of the Author / Roland Barthes
- Actual Reader and Authorial Reader / Peter Rabinowitz
- How to Recognize a Poem When You See One / Stanley Fish
- Do We Write the Text We Read? / Reed Way Dasenbrock
- Female Swerve / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
- From Sexual/Textual Politics / Toril Moi
- Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism / Annette Kolodny
- Black Matter(s) / Toni Morrison
- Image of Africa / Chinua Achebe
- Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands / Wilson Harris
- Imperialism and Sexual Difference / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? / Wayne C. Booth
- Literary Imagination / Martha C. Nussbaum
- Wanted Dead or Alive: Browning's Historicism / Herbert F. Tucker
- Reclaiming the Aesthetic / George Levine
- Aesthetics and the Literal Imagination / Michael Berube.