"Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory."--'English Language Notes.
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Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory.
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opaque jargon on parade,
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This review is from: Consequences of Theory: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88 (Paperback)
Don't bother. These papers are filled with the kind of academic pretense that makes one question the whole enterprise. Pass it up in favor of theory for dummies ...
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unsentimental bond, epistemic antifoundationalism, new historicist practice, linguistic colonialism, abnormal discourse, pragmatic impulse, partition position, colonialist enterprise, colonial subjection, humanistic intellectuals, vocabulary shifts, colonialist practices, methodological reductionism, new historicism, private irony, structural determinism, colonial archives, strong poet, romantic impulse, new historicists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Susan Barton, The Tempest, Tawana Brawley, Donald Pease, Richard Rorty, Stephen Greenblatt, Robinson Crusoe, University of Chicago Press, Invisible Bullets, Patricia Williams, Frantz Fanon, Henry Paine, Sociology of Literary Knowledge, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, South African, Terence Hawkes, University of Minnesota Press, Cornel West, Jacques Derrida, Lynn Hunt, Stanley Fish, United States, University of California Press, White Masks New!
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- Consequences Of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty on page 19, page 61, and page 62
- The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by John Greville Agard Pocock on page 122, page 123, and page 150
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- Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism (Literature, Culture, Theory) by Steven Mailloux in Front Matter, and page 159
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