{"product_id":"9780791485682","title":"Historicizing Theory","description":"Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory-a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism-has often been derided as a mere \"relic\" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077898125552,"sku":"9780791485682","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780791485682_p0.jpg?v=1763667593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780791485682","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}