Historicizing theory

Historicizing Theory......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION: The Resistance to Historicizing Theory PETER C. HERMAN......Page 10
1. The Holocaust, French Poststructuralism, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics EVAN CARTON......Page 26
2. Michel Foucault and the Specter of War KAREN RABER......Page 58
3. Historicizing Paul de Man’s Master Trope Prosopopeia: Belgium’s Trauma of 1940, the Nazi Volkskörper, and Versions of the Allegorical Body Politic JAMES J. PAXSON......Page 78
4. “Nostalgeria” and “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” LEE MORRISSEY......Page 108
5. Jean Baudrillard and May ’68 An Acoustic Archaeology ANDREA LOSELLE......Page 122
6. Stephen Greenblatt’s “X”-Files The Rhetoric of Containment and Invasive Disease in “Invisible Bullets” and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” JONATHAN GIL HARRIS......Page 146
7. New Historicizing the New Historicism; or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968? IVO KAMPS......Page 168
8. The End of Culture LOREN GLASS......Page 200
9. Literature, Incorporated Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon MARC REDFIELD......Page 218
10. The Sixties, the New Left, and the Emergence of Cultural Studies in the United States DAVID R. SHUMWAY......Page 244
11. The Postcolonial Godfather H. ARAM VEESER......Page 264
12. The Spectrality of the Sixties BENJAMIN BERTRAM......Page 286
13. Afterword: Historicism and Its Limits MORRIS DICKSTEIN......Page 310
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 324
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K......Page 330
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