The Strategy of Letters

by Mette Hjort

Although literary theories describe a world of strategies--textual, discursive, interpretive, and political--what is missing is the strategist. Poststructuralists try to explain agency as the effect of large-scale systems or formations; as a result, intuitions about individual action and responsibility are expressed in terms of impersonal strategies. Mette Hjort's book responds to this situation by proposing an alternative account of strategic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674840526
• ISBN13: 9780674840522
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"