Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
Falling into Theory is a brief and inexpensive collection of essays that asks literature students to think about the fundamental questions of literary studies today.
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Falling into Theory is a brief and inexpensive collection of essays that asks literature students to think about the fundamental questions of literary studies today.
ForewordvPrefaceixIntroduction: Falling into Theory1Part 1Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature15What We Have Loved, Others Will Love31Disliking Books at an Early Age41The Rise of English49Introduction to Masks of Conquest60The "Banking" Concept of Education68Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy79The New Advocacy and the Old85The Function of English at the Present Time89Teaching Culture96The Demise of Disciplinary Authority103A Fortunate Fall?111Part 2What We Read: The Literary Canon and the Curriculum after the Culture Wars121Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation137Contingencies of Value147Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon153What Is a Minor Literature?167Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition: From the Seen to the Told175From Epistemology of the Closet183The Politics of Knowledge189Introduction to A Feeling for Books199Telling Our Story about Teaching Literature211The Canon as Cultural Capital218Elegiac Conclusion225Part 3How We Read: Interpretive Communities and Literary Meaning235The Death of the Author253Actual Reader and Authorial Reader258How to Recognize a Poem When You See One268Do We Write the Text We Read?278The Female Swerve290From Sexual/Textual Politics295Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism302Black Matter(s)310An Image of Africa323The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands334Imperialism and Sexual Difference340Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What?349The Literary Imagination356Wanted Dead or Alive: Browning's Historicism366Reclaiming the Aesthetic378Aesthetics and the Literal Imagination391Appendix399Index405
