1. Introduction: Going Down the Anti-Formalist Road

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Introduction: Going Down the Anti-Formalist Road 1
5. Meaning and Constraint
6. 2. With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida 37
7. 3. Why No One's Afraid of Wolfgang Iser 68
8. 4. Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature 87
9. 5. Wrong Again 103
10. 6. Fish v. Fiss 120
11. 7. Change 141
12. Professionalism
13. 8. No Bias, No Merit: The Case Against Blind Submission 163
14. 9. Short People Got No Reason to Live: Reading Irony 180
15. 10. Profession Despise Thyself: Fear and Self-Loathing in Literary Studies 197
16. 11. Anti-Professionalism 215
17. 12. Transmuting the Lump: Paradise Lost, 1942-1979 247
18. 13. Don't Know Much About the Middle Ages: Posner on Law and Literature 294
19. Consequences
20. 14. Consequences 315
21. 15. Anti-Foundationalism, Theory Hope, and the Teaching of Composition 342
22. 16. Still Wrong After All These Years 356
23. 17. Dennis Martinez and the Uses of Theory 372
24. 18. Unger and Milton 399
25. 19. Critical Self-Consciousness, Or Can We Know What We're Doing? 436
26. Rhetoric
27. 20. Rhetoric 471
28. 21. Force 503
29. 22. Withholding the Missing Portion: Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric 525
30. Notes 555
31. Index 595