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Framing Theory's Empire
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As the Theory Era draws to a close, we need more than ever intelligent rumination and debate over what it all meant. THEORY'S EMPIRE was an important step in that direction. Framing THEORY'S EMPIRe carries on the conversation with sophistication and flair. -Denis Dutton
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- About this book
- Table of contents
- Preface:Framing Framing Theory’s Empire, Scott McLemee
- Introduction, John Holbo
- 1. Review of Theory’s Empire, Mark Bauerlein
- 2. Theory of Everything, Michael Bérubé
- 3. Theory’s Empire, John McGowan
- 4. Theory’s Empire, Making Sense of the Theme, John Holbo
- 5. Theory’s Empire: Ersatz Theoretical Ecumenism & Criticism qua Criticism, Scott Eric Kaufman
- 6. Theory Tuesday, Michael Bérubé
- 7. Theory’s Empire—Wrestling the Fog Bank, Sean McCann
- 8. Hostilities, Daniel Green
- 9. A Response to “The Deconstructive Angel,” Adam Kotsko
- 10. Theory Thursday, John McGowan
- 11. Book Notes: Theory’s Empire, Tim Burke
- 12. Four Challenges to Postcolonial Theory, Amardeep Singh
- 13. Why I love theory / Why I hate theory, Jonathan Mayhew
- 14. On Mark Bauerlein’s “Social Constructionism: Philosophy for the Academic Workplace,” Jonathan Goodwin
- 15. Post-Post-Theory, Chris Cagle
- 16. Essentializing Theory: A Testimonial, Christopher Conway
- 17. Anthropological Theory, Siglo XXI, Kathleen Lowrey
- 18.Two Months Before the Mast of Post-Modernism, Brad DeLong
- 19. Theory’s Empire—It’s the Institution,Stupid, Sean McCann
- 20. Theorizing Novels, Matthew Greenfield
- 21. Thinking About Theory’s Empire, Morris Dickstein
- 22. The Death & Discontents of Theory, Jeffrey Wallen
- 23. Trilling’s Taste, An Instance, Jonathan Goodwin
- 24. Teaching Theory’s Empire? Jonathan Goodwin
- 25. Morally Sound, Daniel Green
- 26. Literary Studies Without Literature, John Emerson
- 27. Theory Tuesday III, Michael Bérubé
- 28. Bill the Butcher As Educator, John Holbo
- 29. T1 and T2? Mark Kaplan
- 30. There Be Monsters—or, Rosa Parks: Not Psychotic, Sean McCann
- 31. What’s so scary about theory?Jodi Dean
- 32. ProstheticThoughts, Mark Kaplan
- 33. Breaking News, Mark Kaplan
- 34. The Para-Costives, Mark Kaplan
- 35. Against My Better Judgment, Adam Kotsko
- 36. On Theory and Its Empire, 2: The Politics of Capitalization, Kenneth Rufo
- 37. Conceptualizationand Its Vague Contents, John Holbo
- 38. Nussbaum v. Butler, Round One, John McGowan
- 39. Nussbaum v. Butler, Round Two, John McGowan
- 40. Nussbaum v. Butler, Footnotes, John Holbo
- 41. Afterword, Daphne Patai & Will H. Corral
- Appendix: Links, Comments, & Context
- Contributors
- Back cover
