Consequences of Theory

Jonathan Arac is professor of English at the University of Pittsburg and an editor of boundry. Barbara Johnson is professor of French and comparative literature at Harvard University. She is author of Défigurations du langage poétique and translator of Jacques Derrida's La Dissémination.

• Introduction: Truth or ConsequencesChapter 1. Oppositional Professionals: Theory and the Narratives of ProfessionalizationChapter 2. Theory, Pragmatisms, and PoliticsChapter 3. Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and TechnocracyChapter 4. Tolerable Falsehoods: Agency and the Interests of TheoryChapter 5. History as Gesture; or, The Scandel of HistoryChapter 6. Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge: Greenblatt, Colonialism, and the New historicismChapter 7. Theory in the Margin: Coetzee's Foe Reading Defoe's Crusoe/RoxanaChapter 8. And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of StyleChapter 9. The English InstituteChapter 10. The ProgramSponsoring InstitutionsRegistrants, 1988

Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory. English Language Notes.