What is critical theory, and to what extent can it claim to exist
as a free-standing entity independent of the object of enquiry? Is
the much-discussed gulf between Anglo-Saxon empiricism and
Continental post-structuralism more apparent than real? In The Myth
of Theory William Righter explores the nature of thinking about
literature and the assumed polarities between the abstract
reasonings of philosophy and the concrete exploratory manoeuvres of
critical practice. He goes on to examine the role of theory in
critical observation, through extended case studies of the work of
critics including Barthes. Bloom, Poulet, Eliot, Empson, Kristeva
and Derrida. His underlying argument is that criticism uses theory
but is never effectively directed or controlled by it: the inherent
radicalism built into critical practice fragments and transforms
general concepts in the act of applying them.
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