After Strange Texts

Gregory S. Jay (Edited by), David L. Miller (Edited by)

9780817302245, The University of Alabama Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 March 2016

208 pages, 1 black & white illustration
23.1 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm, 0.318 kg

After Strange Texts is a fine collection of essays that will help to advance discussion about the value and significance of literary theory."" — South Atlantic Modern Language Association

In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?