Falling into Theory : Conflicting Views on Reading Literature

, by David H. Richter

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ISBN: 9780312081225 | 0312081227
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Copyright: 12/1/1993

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Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Falling into Theory	p. 1
Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature	p. 15
What We Have Loved, Others Will Love	p. 31
Disliking Books at an Early Age	p. 41
The Rise of English	p. 49
Introduction to Masks of Conquest	p. 60
The "Banking" Concept of Education	p. 68
Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy	p. 79
The New Advocacy and the Old	p. 85
The Function of English at the Present Time	p. 89
Teaching Culture	p. 96
The Demise of Disciplinary Authority	p. 103
A Fortunate Fall?	p. 111
What We Read: The Literary Canon and the Curriculum after the Culture Wars	p. 121
Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation	p. 137
Contingencies of Value	p. 147
Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon	p. 153
What Is a Minor Literature?	p. 167
Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition: From the Seen to the Told	p. 175
From Epistemology of the Closet	p. 183
The Politics of Knowledge	p. 189
Introduction to A Feeling for Books	p. 199
Telling Our Story about Teaching Literature	p. 211
The Canon as Cultural Capital	p. 218
Elegiac Conclusion	p. 225
How We Read: Interpretive Communities and Literary Meaning	p. 235
The Death of the Author	p. 253
Actual Reader and Authorial Reader	p. 258
How to Recognize a Poem When You See One	p. 268
Do We Write the Text We Read?	p. 278
The Female Swerve	p. 290
From Sexual/Textual Politics	p. 295
Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism	p. 302
Black Matter(s)	p. 310
An Image of Africa	p. 323
The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands	p. 334
Imperialism and Sexual Difference	p. 340
Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What?	p. 349
The Literary Imagination	p. 356
Wanted Dead or Alive: Browning's Historicism	p. 366
Reclaiming the Aesthetic	p. 378
Aesthetics and the Literal Imagination	p. 391
Appendix	p. 399
Index	p. 405
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