Antitheory and Neopragmatism in Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels’ Ideas

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Javidshad Mahdi; NIKOUEI ALIREZA

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Journal: LITERARY CRITICISM Year:2019 | Volume:12 | Issue:46 Page(s): 91-126

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Antitheory and Neopragmatism in Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels’ Ideas

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Javidshad Mahdi | NIKOUEI ALIREZA | Issue Writer Certificate

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Nowadays, one of the most fundamental and controversial theoretical discussions in literary criticism is to evade meta-theory in literaryAntitheory| Grand Theory| Practice| Steven Knapp| Walter Benn Michaelss. The prominent thinkers in this area, known as neo-pragmatists, include Terry Eagleton, Stanley Fish,Antitheory| Grand Theory| Practice| Steven Knapp| Walter Benn Michaels, andAntitheory| Grand Theory| Practice| Steven Knapp| Walter Benn Michaels who emphasize that the course of theory and criticism has now been diverted from its original aim of advancing social justice in the early eighteenth century and has now become a fetish that solidifies and reproduces the hierarchical society. In 1980s, we witnessed the acme of theoretical discussions andAntitheory| Grand Theory| Practice| Steven Knapp| Walter Benn Michaelss in literary studies; yet, in this decade, anti-theory and anti-theoretical discussions come to their acme, knowing Knapp and Michaels’ ideas as one of their key manifestos. Knapp and Michaels believe that theoretical discussions have been the result of the separation of such inseparable terms as meaning-intention, language-speech acts, and theory-practice, leading to “ theoretical enterprise. ” These two critics argue that since authorial discussions are “ empirical” issues, theoretical responses to them do not solve the problem; rather, they are merely a “ theoretical temptation. ” In this article, following a concise survey of thinkers in the realm of theory and related concepts, in particular anti-theory, meta-theory, and post-theory, we have attempted to explore the two’ s ideas, review reactions to them and the errors in their argument, and finally investigate what message Knapp and Michaels’ article can have for our country’ s literary society.

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Javidshad, Mahdi, & NIKOUEI, ALIREZA. (2019). Antitheory and Neopragmatism in Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels’ Ideas. LITERARY CRITICISM, 12(46 ), 91-126. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/158350/en

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Javidshad Mahdi, NIKOUEI ALIREZA. Antitheory and Neopragmatism in Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels’ Ideas. LITERARY CRITICISM[Internet]. 2019;12(46 ):91-126. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/158350/en

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Mahdi Javidshad, and ALIREZA NIKOUEI, “Antitheory and Neopragmatism in Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels’ Ideas,” LITERARY CRITICISM, vol. 12, no. 46 , pp. 91–126, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/158350/en

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