This text argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. It argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading, taking an approach that privileges particularlity and respects "resistant structures" of texts. The book opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must, or cannot, say or do.
- ISBN10 0520919211
- ISBN13 9780520919211
- Publish Date 31 March 1997 (first published 1 September 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint University of California Press
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English