Re-thinking Theory offers a bold approach to literary studies,
itself explicitly theoretical and yet making a searching critique
of the modes, concepts and movements which comprise literary
theory. Discussing key concepts such as ideology, signification and
discourse, and analysing schools including that of F. R. Leavis,
Althusserian Marxism, Derridean and Foucaultian poststructuralism,
and New Historicism, the authors argue that there are major
deficiencies in the conceptual foundations and the literary and
political implications of much literary theory. These deficiencies
are ascribed principally to three aspects of theoretical schools:
the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection
of substantive accounts of the individual, and a repudiation of
moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered
by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced
by this kind of literary theory and places a central emphasis on
ethical discourse.
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