Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism

by W.J. Thomas Mitchell

"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 critics as scandalous, others as provocative and productive.

The argument is directed against both sides of the current debates in literary theory, criticizing theoretical "objectivists" like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226532275
• ISBN13: 9780226532271
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"