By Michæl P. Clark
This state of the art number of essays showcases the paintings of a few of the main influential theorists of the prior thirty years as they grapple with the query of the way literature might be handled in modern conception. The members problem developments that experience lately ruled the field--especially those who emphasize social and political concerns over shut studying and different analytic equipment often linked to literary feedback. Written specifically for this assortment, those essays argue for the significance of aesthetics, poetics, and aesthetic idea as they current new and stimulating views at the instructions which concept and feedback will take up the long run.
In addition to supplying a range of individual critics writing at their top, this assortment is effective since it represents a number of fields and views that aren't often came across jointly within the comparable quantity. Michael Clark's advent offers a concise, cogent historical past of significant advancements and tendencies in literary thought from international battle II to the current, making the whole quantity crucial studying for college students and students of literature, literary thought, and philosophy.
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18. Murray Krieger, Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 6, 15. 19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On the Principles of Genial Criticism Concerning the Fine Arts” (1814), in Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato, 464. 20. MacLeish’s line is from “Ars Poetica” (1926); Brooks’s remark is from “The Heresy of Paraphrase,” in The Well Wrought Urn (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1947) and in Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato, 1040.
8. INT 3/28/00 6:25 PM Page 24 24 MICHAEL P. CL ARK D’Souza’s Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (New York: Random House, 1991). 9. Perhaps the best example of this shift toward a monolithic model of symbolic determination can be found in the career of Foucault himself. His early work Histoire de la folie à l’age classique; folie et déraison (Paris: Plon, 1961) dealt extensively with the literature of madness (as well as madness itself ) as a point of philosophical resistance to the regime of Reason, but the notion of the episteme developed in Les mots et les choses: une archéologie des sciences humaines (Paris: Gallimard, 1966) and the model of disciplinary society introduced in Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison (Paris: Gallimard, 1975) portrayed historical ages as monolithic systems entirely dominated by a single discourse and a continuous network of institutional practices.
11. : Harvard University Press, 1983), 39. 12. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981), 9, 35. 13. In Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), 140. 14. See Jameson, Political Unconscious, chapter 6, and Bhabha, Location of Culture, 147–55. 15. Abdul R. , The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). 16. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” originally published in Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 1 (1936), translated by Harry Zohn in Benjamin, Illuminations (New York: Schocken Books, 1969).
