{"product_id":"resistance-to-theory-volume-33-paperback","title":"Resistance to Theory: Volume 33 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul de Man\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores reasons why the theoretical enterprise is blind to, or \"resists,\" the radical nature of reading, in six essays that offer a new level of critical and cultural understanding in reference to the works of Jauss, Riffaterre, Benjamin, and Bakhtin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a brilliant collection of essays, de Man explores his views, that, the resistance to theory is inherent in the theoretical enterprise itself, and the real debate is with its own methodological assumptions and possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Indispensable. . . . There is resistance to 'theory' and also confusion about its status with reference to both philosophy and criticism.\" -Frank Kermode, Columbia University\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul de Man was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, where he taught comparative literature. He also taught at Harvard, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins, and held a chair in comparative literature at the University of Zurich. His books include: \u003ci\u003eBlindness and Insight\u003c\/i\u003e (1971, revised edition, Minnesota, 1983), \u003ci\u003eAllegories of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), and \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e (1984). Two additional posthumous titles are forthcoming from Minnesota: \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Ideology \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRomanticism and Modernism: Essays 1953-70\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWlad Godzich teaches comparative literature at the Universite de Montreal and at the University of Minnesota, is director of the Center for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minnesota, and is co-editor, with Jochen Schulte-Sasse, of the series Theory and History of Literature.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336747303161,"sku":"9780816612949","price":41.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/es0SX0ZPBm9780816612949.webp?v=1769671034","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/resistance-to-theory-volume-33-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}