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