{"product_id":"resistant-structures-richard-strier-9780520209053","title":"Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts Volume 34","description":"Taking Wittgenstein's \"Don't think, but look\" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but \"pre-theoretical\" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the \"resistant structures\" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must--or cannot--say or do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first part of the book, \"Against Schemes,\" demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, \"Against Received Ideas,\" shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Strier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520209052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520209053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.03w x 0.82d","brand":"Richard Strier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46545640685823,"sku":"9780520209053","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_befe084a-a02a-44eb-8492-a7c33f650632.jpg?v=1738182979","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/resistant-structures-richard-strier-9780520209053","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}