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This collection of eight essays by some of today's most innovative and seminal thinkers argues that there is a limit beyond which the enterprise of literary theory becomes something different from what it presents itself as being. These writers ask, in different ways, how theory functions and how it might preserve within its own practices and effects the freedom of reading, the presence of the real, and the challenge of a voice speaking outside the rhetorics of mastery.
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"In response to the noisy world of contemporary theory, Kavanagh has assembled a provocative collection of essays by critics and philosophers who share the conviction that there is a limit beyond which the drive to theorize transforms theory into something different from what it presents itself as being. . . . Limits attempts with considerable success to strike a delicate balance between critiquing theoretical excess and defending theory's usefulness." -- Scott Sprenger * Modern Language Notes *
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The Limits of Theory
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Stanford U. Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0804717052
ISBN 13: 9780804717052
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The Limits of Theory
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Stanford University Press, 1989, 1989
ISBN 10: 0804717052
ISBN 13: 9780804717052
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