The Emperor Redressed

by Eddins, Dwight

• ISBN13: 9780817307783
• ISBN10: 0817307788
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

M.H. Abrams, Nina Baym, Frederick Crews, Ihab Hassan, David Lehman, Richard Levin, Paisley Livingston, Saul Morson, and John Searle collectively question the poststructuralist ascendancy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
What is a Humanistic Criticism?	p. 13
Notes	p. 38
The End Of The Poststructuralist Era	p. 45
The Current Polarization Of Literary Studies	p. 62
Notes	p. 77
Time and the Intelligentsia: A Patchwork in Nine Parts, with Loopholes	p. 81
Notes	p. 99
The Agony of Feminism: Why Feminist Theory is Necessary After All	p. 101
Works Cited	p. 116
Confessions of a Reluctant Critic Or, the Resistance to Literature	p. 118
Deconstruction After the Fall	p. 132
Notes	p. 147
The Poetic Fallacy	p. 150
Works Cited	p. 165
Literary Theory And Its Discontents	p. 166
Notes	p. 198
Panel Discussion	p. 199
Contributors	p. 221
Index	p. 223
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