Marc Redfield: 3 books
The Rhetoric of Terror
Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom “9/11”: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essays...
Phantom Formations
Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman"
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe,...
Theory at Yale
The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book examines the affinity between “theory” and “deconstruction” that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the “Yale Critics”: Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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