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9780800626938

Literary Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780800626938

  • ISBN10:

    0800626931

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-06-01
  • Publisher: Fortress Pr

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Summary

Dawson's Guide invites readers to probe literary theory as theology. In three key rubrics - spirit, text, and body - he finds the two disciplines meeting at their deepest level: as engagements with contemporary culture and as frameworks for speaking of all human meaning.

Author Biography

David Dawson is Associate Professor of Religion, Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introductionp. 1
Spirit and Revisionp. 21
The Language of Revisionary Reading
Paul de Man's Deconstruction
Harold Bloom's Misreading
Text and Performancep. 55
Luther on Eucharistic Performance
De Man on Benjamin's Pure Language
De Man on Shelley's Disfiguration
Body and Consummationp. 85
Providence and Freedom, Author and Hero
Mikhail Bakhtin on Bloom and de Man
Evil and the Aesthetic Temptation
Epiloguep. 118
Abbreviationsp. 125
Notesp. 127
Glossaryp. 137
Indexp. 146
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