Resistant Structures - Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts

Informationen zum Autor Richard Strier is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (1983) and the coeditor! with Heather Dubrow! of The Historical Renaissance: New Essays in Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture (1988). Klappentext " Resistant Structures manages to be both stunning and sensible. . . .The book is an erudite, sensitive, and theoretically provocative experiment in political criticism, at once radical and rigorous, which will be of lasting value to all students of English Renaissance literature."—Debora Shuger, author of The Renaissance Bible "These essays have a cumulative and exemplary force, which is due to Strier's knowlege, his intelligence, the clarity of his writing, and the honesty of his procedures."—Paul Alpers, author of Singer of the Eclogues: A Study of Virgilian Pastoral Zusammenfassung This text argues against the application of priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. It argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading, taking an approach that privileges particularity and respects "resistant structures" of texts.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Strier, Strier Richard
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.1997
• EAN: 9780520209053
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20905-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Historicism: Studies in Cu; The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800