Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism by Daniel T. O'Hara, Adena Rosmarin, Steven Knapp, Jonathan Crewe, Richard Rorty, William C. Dowling, Walter Benn Michaels, Steven Mailloux, W.J.T. Mitchell, Hershel Parker, Stanley Fish, E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism

Critical Inquiry Book

Daniel T. O'Hara, Adena Rosmarin, Steven Knapp, Jonathan Crewe, Richard Rorty, William C. Dowling, Walter Benn Michaels, Steven Mailloux, W.J.T. Mitchell, Hershel Parker, Stanley Fish, E.D. Hirsch Jr.

146 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some cri...

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