Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance TextsTaking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must—or cannot—say or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, "Against Received Ideas," shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content. |
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... Theory , " Modern Philology 86 ( 1988 ) : 56-76 . © 1988 by The University of Chicago . All rights reserved . Chapter 5 : " Sanctifying the Aristocracy , " Journal of Religion 69 ( 1989 ) : 36–58 . © 1989 by The University of Chicago ...
... Theory , " Modern Philology 86 ( 1988 ) : 56-76 . © 1988 by The University of Chicago . All rights reserved . Chapter 5 : " Sanctifying the Aristocracy , " Journal of Religion 69 ( 1989 ) : 36–58 . © 1989 by The University of Chicago ...
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... Theory " Essay 4. " New Historicism " PART TWO : AGAINST RECEIVED IDEAS Essay 5. Impossible Worldliness : xi I 13 27 42 67 " Devout Humanism " 83 Appendix : Impossible Transcendence 109 Essay 6. Impossible Radicalism I : Donne and ...
... Theory " Essay 4. " New Historicism " PART TWO : AGAINST RECEIVED IDEAS Essay 5. Impossible Worldliness : xi I 13 27 42 67 " Devout Humanism " 83 Appendix : Impossible Transcendence 109 Essay 6. Impossible Radicalism I : Donne and ...
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... theory . He spoke of " the bafflement " that " singular turns of tone , phrase , and figure were bound to produce in readers attentive enough to notice their non - understanding behind the screen of received ideas . " 1 This book is a ...
... theory . He spoke of " the bafflement " that " singular turns of tone , phrase , and figure were bound to produce in readers attentive enough to notice their non - understanding behind the screen of received ideas . " 1 This book is a ...
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... theories . Something like this may — with enough of an account of " theories " —be true , and it is certainly true that there is no " world " without language . But this does not mean that there are no facts independent of particular ...
... theories . Something like this may — with enough of an account of " theories " —be true , and it is certainly true that there is no " world " without language . But this does not mean that there are no facts independent of particular ...
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Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts Richard Strier. texts that all " theories " would agree on . Agreeing to these does not mean subscribing to a theory but merely being a competent user of the language in which the texts ...
Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts Richard Strier. texts that all " theories " would agree on . Agreeing to these does not mean subscribing to a theory but merely being a competent user of the language in which the texts ...
Contents
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SelfConsumption | 27 |
Theory | 42 |
New Historicism | 67 |
Impossible Worldliness Devout Humanism | 83 |
Impossible Transcendence | 109 |
Impossible Radicalism I Donne and Freedom of Conscience | 118 |
Impossible Radicalism II Shakespeare and Disobedience | 165 |
Impossible Radicalism and Impossible Value Nahum Tates King Lear | 203 |
INDEX | 233 |
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