Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts Volume 34

by Richard Strier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520209052
• ISBN13: 9780520209053
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"