Evolution and Literary Theory: Volume 1

by Joseph Carroll

Carroll anatomizes the irrationalism of current literary theory with surgical precision. In a concise, lucid prose, he lays bare the sophistries at the heart of the doctrines propounded by Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, J. Hillis Miller, Fish, and many others. In opposition to the textualism and indeterminacy that constitute the central doctrines of poststructuralism, Carroll affiliates himself with a realist and naturalist tradition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826209793
• ISBN13: 9780826209795
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5