The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory

A critique reveals the logical flaws that joins--and compromises--all the major recent modes of criticism that operate udner the rubric of Theory.

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About the author

Tony Hilfer is a professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. His recent works include American Fiction Since 1940 (Longman, 1992) and The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre (University of Texas Press, 1990).

Summary

In a critique of the full range of theoretical discourses that have come into favour in literary studies since the 1960s, this work shows that these forms of criticism present themselves as unquestionable - ways of thinking that are too self-evident to need arguing or evidence.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Channell Hilfer, Tony Hilfer
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780810119536
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1953-6
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 232 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 177 g
• Series: Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback); Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies