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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... Essay 1. " Tradition " Essay 2. " Self - Consumption " Essay 3. " 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 ...
... Essay 1. " Tradition " Essay 2. " Self - Consumption " Essay 3. " 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 ...
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... essay . For comments on the French contexts of the " Devout Hu- manism " essay , I am very grateful to my colleague Philippe Desan , and for superb and helpful comments on the whole essay I am grateful to Michael Schoenfeldt . My ...
... essay . For comments on the French contexts of the " Devout Hu- manism " essay , I am very grateful to my colleague Philippe Desan , and for superb and helpful comments on the whole essay I am grateful to Michael Schoenfeldt . My ...
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... essays that are based on previously published pieces are not identical with those pieces . There are , in all cases , significant changes , and in the cases of the historical essays , significant additions . I hope that the experience ...
... essays that are based on previously published pieces are not identical with those pieces . There are , in all cases , significant changes , and in the cases of the historical essays , significant additions . I hope that the experience ...
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... Essay 1. For an application of this procedure to two historical " documents " ( and a defense of this application ) , see Richard Strier , " From Diagnosis to Operation : The Roots and Branches Petition and the Grand Remonstrance , " in ...
... Essay 1. For an application of this procedure to two historical " documents " ( and a defense of this application ) , see Richard Strier , " From Diagnosis to Operation : The Roots and Branches Petition and the Grand Remonstrance , " in ...
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... essays in Stanley Fish , Doing What Comes Naturally : Change , Rhetoric , and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies ( Durham : Duke University Press , 1989 ) ... essay by I do not mean to suggest that we should ( INTRODUCTION 3.
... essays in Stanley Fish , Doing What Comes Naturally : Change , Rhetoric , and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies ( Durham : Duke University Press , 1989 ) ... essay by I do not mean to suggest that we should ( INTRODUCTION 3.
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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