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Antoine Compagnon. Literature, Theor y, and Common Sense. Trans. Carol Cosman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. viii, 224 p. Jean-Jacques Lecercle and Ronald Shusterman. Lâ Emprise des signes: débat sur lâexpérience litteraire. Paris: Ãditions du Seuil, 2002. 259 p. Derek Attridge. The Singularity of Literature. London: Routledge, 2004. xiv, 178 p. Walter Benn Michaels. The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 224 p., 6 ills. Provided with two decades of hindsight, we are now in a position to assess the practical consequences of the epoch of theory, which have been very different in France and the United States. Antoine Compagnon, in the book here reviewed, says that the French new criticism âwas solidly incorporated into the curriculum of Franceâs national education, especially in secondary teaching. This may well have been precisely what made it so rigid. It is impossible today to pass an entrance exam without mastering the subtle distinctions and jargon of narratologyâ (3). In the United States, which lacks Franceâs coordination of curriculum, testing, and college admission, theory had no comparable effect. Freed from the onus of reducing theory to a national pedagogy and teaching it to
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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