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ERIC Number: EJ403720
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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The Current Conjuncture in Theory.
Sprinker, Michael
College English, v51 n8 p825-31 Dec 1989
Describes the current debate in literary study between the humanist/historicist and the anti-humanist/anti-historicist perspectives. Examines the political dimensions of this debate, including its relationship to Marxist theory and deconstruction. Asserts that literary texts are productions of ideology and that literary study should inquire into the mechanisms of ideological production in different historical societies. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Humanism, Ideology, Literary Criticism, Marxism, Political Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Deconstruction (Literature); Historical Influences; Historical Societies; Historicism; Literary Politics; Literary Theory