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Resistant Structures
Richard Strier
其他書名
Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts
出版University of California Press, 2023-09-01
主題Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN05209192119780520919211
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TOnQEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.


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" read