Reading After Theory Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Valentine Cunningham
From the rear cover
Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era. His account examines the spread of literary theory from the 1960s, when it was considered highly contentious, to the present time, when theoretical approaches are taken for granted across a range of disciplines. Whilst acknowledging the necessity of theory for reading and recognising the good it has done, he strongly criticises it for encouraging bad reading, and for diminishing the richness, scope and human connection of texts.
Cunningham argues that theory has made texts secondary to questions of ideology, oppressions and resistance (important though they are) and proposes that what is needed in order to rescue literary studies is a return to close and "tactful" reading. His manifesto insists on the primacy of texts over all theorising about them, and on the restoration of the human to literary studies.
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- Title Reading After Theory
- Author Valentine Cunningham
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-02-01
- ISBN 9780631221685 / 0631221689
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.02 x 0.63 in (23.01 x 15.29 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Literature, Modern - History and criticism, Criticism - History - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001004521
- Dewey Decimal Code 801.950
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Citations
- Library Journal, 02/01/2002, Page 104
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