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Montaigne after theory, theory after Montaigne

Table of Contents: “…From amateur gentleman to gentleman amateur / George Hoffmann -- Theory and practice in "Du pedantisme" / Eric MacPhail -- Fashion / John O'Brien -- Duty, conciliation, and ontology in the Essais / Jacob Vance -- Montaigne parrhesiastes: Foucault's fearless speech and truth-telling in the Essays / Reinier Leushuis -- "Qu'est-ce que la critique?"…”
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Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Hadfield -- Theory and practice in historical method / Michael McKeon -- Limiting history / Marshall Grossman -- The politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More / Thomas Fulton -- Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello / Heather Hirschfeld -- The new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue / Paul Stevens -- In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history / Lawrence Manley -- Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts / Sharon Achinstein -- Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism / Martin Dzelzainis -- You shall be our generalless : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton / Laura Knoppers -- War times : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives / Erin Murphy.…”
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Words about Words about Words : Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text / by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Words about words about words: theory, criticism, and the literary text ; The arts and the idea of progress ; From theory to thematics: The ideological underside of recent theory ; Literary invention, critical fashion, and the impulse to theoretical change: "Or whether revolution be the same" ; A meditation on a critical theory institute -- Critical positions: Self-definition and other definitions. …”
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Words about Words about Words : Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text / by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Words about words about words: theory, criticism, and the literary text ; The arts and the idea of progress ; From theory to thematics: The ideological underside of recent theory ; Literary invention, critical fashion, and the impulse to theoretical change: "Or whether revolution be the same" ; A meditation on a critical theory institute -- Critical positions: Self-definition and other definitions. …”
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