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Reading After Theory
Valentine Cunningham (Author)
9780631221685, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 21 December 2001
208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.299 kg
"This publisher's 'Manifestos' series seeks to offer educated but general readers chewy presentations of contemporary ideas, and Cunningham (English language and literature, Oxford) is stellar in his honing to that theme. This book is fun, involving, and inviting as both a social book-discussion subject and an important text that graduate students and literary specialists need to consider. Library Journal "Valentine Cunningham's sharp, amusing critical polemic" Times Literary Supplement "In the process of developing his argument and attempting to refocus critical attention on the text - both the literary and the critical text - and what it says, Cunningham displays an intimate knowledge of the major works of contemporary literary theory." Choice
Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.
1. What Then? What Now?. 2. Reading Always Comes After. 3. Theory, What Theory?. 4. The Good of Theory. 5. Fragments . Ruins. 6. All What Jazz? Or, The Incredible Disappearing Text. 7. Textual Abuse: Or, Down with Stock Responses. 8. Theory Stinks. 9. Touching Rading. 10. When I Can Read My Title Clear. Notes. Index.
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
