Limits of Theory

Author/Contributor(s):	Kavanagh, Thomas M
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	02/01/1989
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.