Pure Good of Theory

by Denis Donoghue

Book Overview

In the sixth volume of the Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory, the Irish critic Denis Donoghue offers an eloquent and passionate defense of poetry. Donoghue opposes the politicization of literature and the unnecessary "techniques of trouble" applied in certain forms of contemporary literary theory. With reference to particular proponents of theory, Donoghue argues that we do justice to the concept of theoretical discourse only if we pursue our inquiries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631184759
• ISBN13: 9780631184751
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.