Historicizing Theory.

Intro -- Historicizing Theory -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: The Resistance to Historicizing Theory PETER C. HERMAN -- 1. The Holocaust, French Poststructuralism, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics EVAN CARTON -- 2. Michel Foucault and the Specter of War KAREN RABER -- 3. Historicizing Paul de Man's Master Trope Prosopopeia: Belgium's Trauma of 1940, the Nazi Volkskörper, and Versions of the Allegorical Body Politic JAMES J. PAXSON -- 4. "Nostalgeria" and "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" LEE MORRISSEY -- 5. Jean Baudrillard and May '68 An Acoustic Archaeology ANDREA LOSELLE -- 6. Stephen Greenblatt's "X"-Files The Rhetoric of Containment and Invasive Disease in "Invisible Bullets" and "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" JONATHAN GIL HARRIS -- 7. New Historicizing the New Historicism -- or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968? IVO KAMPS -- 8. The End of Culture LOREN GLASS -- 9. Literature, Incorporated Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon MARC REDFIELD -- 10. The Sixties, the New Left, and the Emergence of Cultural Studies in the United States DAVID R. SHUMWAY -- 11. The Postcolonial Godfather H. ARAM VEESER -- 12. The Spectrality of the Sixties BENJAMIN BERTRAM -- 13. Afterword: Historicism and Its Limits MORRIS DICKSTEIN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.

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