Resistance to Theory
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Resistance to Theory is a seminal collection of essays by literary theorist Paul de Man that challenges the foundations and possibilities of literary theory and criticism.
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| Resistance to Theory canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
comparative literature
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literary studies ⓘ |
| argues |
literary theory is structurally resisted by its own object
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theory cannot fully master or control textual meaning ⓘ |
| author | Paul de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
impossibility of a metalanguage
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indeterminacy of meaning ⓘ resistance inherent in reading ⓘ rhetoric versus grammar ⓘ self-reflexivity of theory ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs | seminal collection of essays on literary theory ⓘ |
| editor | Wlad Godzich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
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literary theory ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Allegories of Reading (essay selections)
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Form and Intent in the American New Criticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Hypogram and Inscription ⓘ Literary History and Literary Modernity NERFINISHED ⓘ Semiology and Rhetoric ⓘ Sign and Symbol in Hegel’s Aesthetics NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism NERFINISHED ⓘ The Resistance to Theory NERFINISHED ⓘ The Return to Philology NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rhetoric of Temporality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReception |
controversial due to de Man’s later biographical revelations
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widely discussed in North American literary criticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
comparative literature studies
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contemporary literary theory ⓘ deconstructive criticism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
German idealism
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Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED ⓘ rhetorical criticism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | PN45 ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
critique of literary theory
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theory of literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging the foundations of literary theory
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influential status in 20th-century literary theory ⓘ redefining the aims and limits of criticism ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| publisher | University of Minnesota Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Allegories of Reading
NERFINISHED
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Blindness and Insight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoreticalOrientation |
deconstruction
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poststructuralism ⓘ |
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