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- Title: Imagined Literature: Notes Towards a Revisionary History of Theory (Essay)
- Author : Thomas Samson
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
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Summary This paper makes a case for looking beyond the tropes that oversimplify the intellectual movement called Theory. It claims that this is necessary to get a glimpse of the sociocultural processes that shaped Theory and defined its moment in cultural history. This paper analyses the assumptions on which these tropes are based. Based on this analysis, it seeks to establish that Theory is not a coherent discourse that yielded knowledge of the process of reality-making, without being affected by the discourses on reality it engaged with to carve out its position. Theory is a fissured discourse whose "discoveries" were both enabled and delimited by the contexts of its articulation. In fact, Theory owes its shape to these contexts. This paper attempts to establish this thesis by studying Theory's stance vis-a-vis literature, one of the important "contexts" (for want of a better term) of Theory.
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