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Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts, Richard Strier

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Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must - or cannot - say or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish, among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, "Against Received Ideas," shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages).
Contents
  • Impossible transcendence
  • Impossible radicalism I : Donne and freedom of conscience
  • Impossible radicalism II : Shakespeare and disobedience
  • Impossible radicalism and impossible value : Nahum Tate's King Lear
  • pt. 1. Against schemes:
  • "Tradition"
  • "Self consumption"
  • "Theory"
  • "New historicism"
  • pt. 2. Against received ideas:
  • Impossible worldliness : "devout humanism" ;
  • Appendix :
Isbn
9780520089150
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Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts
Title
Resistant structures
Title remainder
particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts
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Richard Strier
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must - or cannot - say or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish, among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, "Against Received Ideas," shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content
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Strier, Richard
Dewey number
820.9/003
Index
index present
LC call number
PR428.H57
LC item number
.S77 1995eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
The new historicism
Series volume
no. 34
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • English literature
  • Literature and history
  • Literature and history
  • Particularity (Aesthetics)
  • Radicalism in literature
  • Renaissance
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • Literature and history
  • Particularity (Aesthetics)
  • Radicalism in literature
  • Renaissance
  • England
Label
Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts, Richard Strier
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Impossible transcendence
  • Impossible radicalism I : Donne and freedom of conscience
  • Impossible radicalism II : Shakespeare and disobedience
  • Impossible radicalism and impossible value : Nahum Tate's King Lear
  • pt. 1. Against schemes:
  • "Tradition"
  • "Self consumption"
  • "Theory"
  • "New historicism"
  • pt. 2. Against received ideas:
  • Impossible worldliness : "devout humanism" ;
  • Appendix :
Control code
45733549
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages).
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780520089150
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)45733549
Label
Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts, Richard Strier
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Impossible transcendence
  • Impossible radicalism I : Donne and freedom of conscience
  • Impossible radicalism II : Shakespeare and disobedience
  • Impossible radicalism and impossible value : Nahum Tate's King Lear
  • pt. 1. Against schemes:
  • "Tradition"
  • "Self consumption"
  • "Theory"
  • "New historicism"
  • pt. 2. Against received ideas:
  • Impossible worldliness : "devout humanism" ;
  • Appendix :
Control code
45733549
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages).
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780520089150
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)45733549

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