Reaganism in Literary Theory - Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion

Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man's replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.

Sommario

Acknowledgments; Essay One Interpretive Politics: Reading Systemic Oppressions with Eve Sedgwick, Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus; 1. Reading the Lines; 2. Paranoid Projects; 3. Defining the Opposition; Essay Two Devotional Scholarship: Reading Academic Reaganism with Edward Said, Stanley Fish and Walter Jackson Bate; 1. Neoliberalism and Religious Intellectualism; 2. Neoconservatism as Negative Devotion; 3. Professional Privilege; Essay Three Negative Moralism: Reading Literariness, Materiality and Revolution with Paul de Man and J. Hillis Miller; 1. The Disqualification of de Man; 2. Reference to Nothingness; 3. Misreading Materialism; Index.

Info autore

Jeremiah Bowen, PhD is author of Reaganism in Literary Theory: Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion and the book-length poems Consolations, and Argument on the Internet, volumes 1 and 2.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeremiah Bowen
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781785272783
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-278-3
• Pagine: 214
• Serie: Anthem symploke Studies in Theory; Anthem Symploke Studies in The
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory