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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> And I am inclined to say that our theorizing (and I intentionally use the verb rather than the noun) is often in narrative forms in the stories we create in riddles and proverbs in the play with language since dynamic rather than fixed ideas seem more to our liking. Dynamic ideas are definitely more to my liking. Through the decade of the nineties my own theorizing sought a form of writing that could honor this preference. In order to inscribe my perhaps id- iosyncratic attempts within 3 larger effort-something someone might call “our theorizing”-I begin with this sentence from Bar- bara Christian’s mid-eighties essay “The Race for Theory.” Written in the heyday of “theory” in the U.S. literary academy (that moment in the mid-eighties when deconstructive poststruc- turalist discourse seemed predominant) Christian’s essay spoke forcefully to and of its moment quickly becoming notorious (and oft reprinted) as an attack on “theory.” What is less frequently noted is that Christian rejects not theory per se but a certain kind of the ory-that the essay also advocates an alternative way of theorizing. (LL)