Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism by Hershel Parker, Daniel T. O'Hara, Jonathan Crewe, Walter Benn Michaels, Richard M. Rorty, Stanley Fish, Steven Mailloux, Steven Knapp, William C. Dowling, Adena Rosmarin, E.D. Hirsch Jr., W.J.T. Mitchell

Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism

Hershel Parker, Daniel T. O'Hara, Jonathan Crewe, Walter Benn Michaels, Richard M. Rorty, Stanley Fish, Steven Mailloux, Steven Knapp, William C. Dowling, Adena Rosmarin, E.D. Hirsch Jr., W.J.T. Mitchell

146 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some cri...

Read more

Community reviews

This book doesn't have any reviews or ratings yet!

If you've read it, mark it as 'read' and add a review to help others in the StoryGraph community figure out if it might be a book for them!

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.