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Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary politics and its relation to aesthetics across two centuries.Guyer focuses on a single, exemplary case: the poetry and autobiographical writing of the British poet John Clare (1793–1864). Reading Clare in combination with contemporary theories of biopolitics, Guyer reinterprets romanticism’s political legacies, specifically the belief that romanticism is a direct precursor to the violent nationalisms and redemptive environmentalisms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Guyer offers an alternative account of many of romanticism’s foundational concepts, like home, genius, creativity, and organicism. She shows that contemporary critical theories of biopolitics, despite repeatedly dismissing the aesthetic or poetic dimensions of power as a culpable ideology, emerge within the same rhetorical tradition as the romanticism they denounce. The book thus compels a rethinking of the biopolitical critique of poetry and an attendant reconsideration of romanticism and its concepts.

Clare, John, --- Biopolitics. --- Close Reading. --- Displacement. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Homelessness in Literature. --- John Clare. --- Legacies of Romanticism. --- Paul de Man. --- Self-Identity. --- romanticism.

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Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the pluralist's invitation to join in a "dialogue" as a seductive gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form of logic in the work of E. D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish. For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics.

Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature. --- Pluralism. --- Criticism --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Monadology --- Monism --- Philosophy --- Reality --- Literature History and criticism --- persuasion --- Wayne Booth --- literary theory --- pluralism --- Fredric Jameson --- rhetoric --- Stanley Fish --- E.D. Hirsch --- Paul de Man

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Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that Critical Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida's work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002, Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought. These essays define three significant "periods" in Derrida's writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays like "The Law of Genre," in which Derrida produces a kind of phenomenological narratology. Another essay, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," embodies the second, presenting deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of linguistics was actually a repetition of earlier concepts. The final period of Derrida's writing includes the essays "Of Spirit" and "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)," and three eulogies to the intellectual legacies of Michel Foucault, Louis Marin, and Emmanuel Lévinas, in which Derrida uses the ideas of each thinker to push forward the implications of their theories. With an introduction by Francoise Meltzer that provides an overview of the oeuvre of this singular philosopher, Signature Derrida is the most wide-ranging, and thus most representative, anthology of Derrida's work to date.

Philosophy --- Derrida, Jacques. --- derrida, critical inquiry, philosophy, law of genre, narratology, linguistic circle geneva, deconstructionism, language, animal that therefore i am more to follow, linguistics, epistemology, spirit, michel foucault, louis marin, emmanuel levinas, literary theory, paul de man, racism, prejudice, discrimination, race, biodegradables, given time, freud, madness, psychoanalysis, psychology, mental illness, adieu, by force mourning, translation, nonfiction.

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This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the standard history of English medieval and Renaissance drama. Robert Knapp argues that changes in the authority of English monarchs, in the differentiation and integration of English society, in the realization of human figures on stage, and in the understanding of signs helped produce scripts that still compel us to the act of interpretation.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

English drama --- Semiotics and literature --- Literature and history --- Theater --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- English literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Shakespeare, William --- English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. --- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century. --- Semiotics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century. --- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century. --- Abjection. --- Aestheticism. --- Allegory. --- Ambiguity. --- Antitheatricality. --- Antithesis. --- Bel-imperia. --- Burlesque. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Chaucer's Retraction. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Criticism. --- Cymbeline. --- Deconstruction. --- Deprecation. --- Disenchantment. --- Dogberry. --- Dramaturgy. --- Epic theatre. --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Fiction. --- Flattery. --- Fortinbras. --- G. (novel). --- G. Wilson Knight. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Gorboduc. --- Henriad. --- Hermia. --- Hieronimo. --- Historicism. --- Hubris. --- Hypocrisy. --- Iago. --- Iconoclasm. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- King Lear. --- Legal fiction. --- Leontes. --- Literariness. --- Literature. --- Malvolio. --- Melodrama. --- Metonymy. --- Mock-heroic. --- Modernity. --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- Negative capability. --- Pandarus. --- Parody. --- Paul de Man. --- Performative utterance. --- Petruchio. --- Plautus. --- Playwright. --- Poetry. --- Political satire. --- Polonius. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prudentius. --- Puritans. --- Pyramus and Thisbe. --- Renaissance tragedy. --- Revenge tragedy. --- Rhetoric. --- Ricardian (Richard III). --- Richard Hooker. --- Robert Greene (dramatist). --- Roderigo. --- Romantic epistemology. --- Romanticism. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Satire. --- Secularization. --- Sentimentality. --- Shakespeare's Kings. --- Shakespearean comedy. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Shylock. --- Skepticism. --- Spirituality. --- Tamburlaine. --- The Gaze of Orpheus. --- The Spanish Tragedy. --- Theatrum Mundi. --- Theodicy. --- Thomas Kyd. --- Titus Andronicus. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Tragicomedy. --- V. --- William Ames. --- William Shakespeare. --- History and criticism. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. From the exquisite close readings for which he is celebrated, Miller reaps a capacious understanding of otherness--one reachable not through theory but through literature itself. Otherness has wide valence in contemporary literary and cultural studies and is often understood as a misconception by hegemonic groups of subaltern ones. In a pleasing counter to this, Others conceives of otherness as something that inhabits sameness. Instances of the ''wholly other'' within the familiar include your sense of self or your beloved, your sense of your culture as such, or your experience of literary, theoretical, and philosophical works that belong to your own culture--works that are themselves haunted by otherness. Though Others begins and ends with chapters on theorists, the testimony they offer about otherness is not taken as more compelling than that of such literary works as Dicken's Our Mutual Friend, Conrad's ''The Secret Sharer,'' Yeats's ''Cold Heaven,'' or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Otherness, as this book finds it in the writers read, is not an abstract concept. It is an elusive feature of specific verbal constructs, different in each case. It can be glimpsed only through close readings that respect this diversity, as the plural in the title--Others--indicates. We perceive otherness in the way that the unseen--and the characters' emotional responses to it--ripples the conservative ideological surface of Howard's End. We sense it as chaos in Schlegel's radical concept of irony. And we gaze at it in the multiple personifications of Heart of Darkness. Each testifies in its own way to the richness and tangible weight of an otherness close at hand.

Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Criticism --- European fiction --- History and criticism --- Europe. --- Absurdity. --- Allegory. --- Allusion. --- Analogy. --- Anthony Trollope. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Aphorism. --- Aporia. --- Appropriation (art). --- Assonance. --- Autobiography. --- Catachresis. --- Charles Dickens. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Determination. --- Dichotomy. --- Dizziness. --- E. M. Forster. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Emblem. --- Essay. --- Feeling. --- Fiction. --- Genre. --- George Eliot. --- Harold Bloom. --- Howards End. --- Idealism. --- Ideology. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Instant. --- Irony. --- J. L. Austin. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness). --- Lesbian. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Louis Althusser. --- Marcel Proust. --- Messianism. --- Metaphor. --- Michael Sprinker. --- Mrs. --- My Neighbor. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Obscenity. --- Oedipus the King. --- On Truth. --- Otherness (book). --- Our Mutual Friend. --- Oxford University Press. --- Oxymoron. --- Pamphlet. --- Paragraph. --- Paul de Man. --- Performative utterance. --- Perjury. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Prose. --- Prosopopoeia. --- Pun. --- Racism. --- Rhetoric. --- Rhyme. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Specters of Marx. --- Speech act. --- Stupidity. --- Subjectivity. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Synecdoche. --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- The Other Hand. --- The Resistance to Theory. --- The Secret Sharer. --- The Various. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Trollope. --- Uncertainty. --- University of Minnesota Press. --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Victorian literature. --- W. B. Yeats. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Werner Hamacher. --- Wissenschaft. --- Writing.