Resistance to Theory: Volume 33

by Paul De Man

Book Overview

Explores 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.

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816612943
• ISBN13: 9780816612949
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"