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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... seen . I find that I am in dialogue with them even when they do not know it . Imagining their voices and reactions has simply become part of what serious writing means for me . The friends and colleagues with whom I am always in ...
... seen . I find that I am in dialogue with them even when they do not know it . Imagining their voices and reactions has simply become part of what serious writing means for me . The friends and colleagues with whom I am always in ...
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... seen at work . * 4. I have quite consciously written this paragraph ( until now ) without footnotes . I want to take full responsibility for the position that I have enunciated , and I want the positions that I have attacked and ...
... seen at work . * 4. I have quite consciously written this paragraph ( until now ) without footnotes . I want to take full responsibility for the position that I have enunciated , and I want the positions that I have attacked and ...
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... seen as imagining radical solutions . Surely there was no such book in the sixteenth century as More's Utopia.7 As for " Whig " historiography , when it is false and distorting it is certainly a problem , but the revolt against the ...
... seen as imagining radical solutions . Surely there was no such book in the sixteenth century as More's Utopia.7 As for " Whig " historiography , when it is false and distorting it is certainly a problem , but the revolt against the ...
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Contents
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4 | |
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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Absalom and Achitophel argue argument assertion Bacon behavior Burton Cambridge Castellio chap Christian Church-porch conscience context Cordelia Coriolanus Cornwall courtier critic critique cultural deconstruction devout humanism distinction Donne's Eagleton early modern Edmund Elizabethan emphasis England English Erasmus essay Exclusion Crisis Fish Fish's Folio George Herbert Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Greenblatt Hamlet Helen Gardner historical Historicism J. H. Hexter John Donne Kent King Lear language Lear's Leontes lines literary London Luther mean metaphor moral obedience Oswald Oxford perhaps philosophical phrase Phrygius poem Poetry political Ponet position prince Protestant question radical reading rebellion Reformation Regan Religion religious Renaissance resistance rhetoric Richard Richard II Satire III scene Schoenfeldt seems sense Shakespeare social Sonnets soul Stanley Fish stanza Stephen Greenblatt Strier suggest Tate Tate's Lear Tate's play Theory thou tradition trans true truth Tuve Tuve's University Press Utopia Whigs William Empson York