Doing What Comes Naturally. Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1. lntroduction: Going Down the Anti-Formalist Road......Page 13
Meaning and Constraint......Page 47
2. With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida......Page 49
3. Why No One's Afraid of Wolfgang lser......Page 80
4. Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature......Page 99
5. Wrong Again......Page 115
6. Fish v. Fiss......Page 132
7. Change......Page 153
Professionalism......Page 173
8. No Bias, No Merit: The Case Against Blind Submission......Page 175
9. Short People Got No Reason to Live: Reading lrony......Page 192
10. Profession Despise Thyself: Fear and Self-Loathing in Literary Studies......Page 209
11. Anti-Professionalism......Page 227
12. T ransmuting the Lump: Paradise Lost, 1942-1979......Page 259
13. Don 't Know Much About the Middle Ages: Posner on Law and Literature......Page 306
Consequences......Page 325
14. Consequences......Page 327
15. Anti-Foundationalism, Theory Hope, and the Teaching of Composition......Page 354
16. Still Wrong After All These Years......Page 368
17. Dennis Martinez and the Uses of Theory......Page 384
18. Unger and Milton......Page 411
19. Critical Self-Consciousness, Or Can We Know What We're Doing?......Page 448
Rhetoric......Page 481
20. Rhetoric......Page 483
21. Force......Page 515
22. Withholding the Missing Portion: Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric......Page 537
Notes......Page 567
Index......Page 607