New Historicism was just starting to really pick up in my last year as an undergraduate, it all seemed incredibly careerist to me. I used to go to a Friday afternoon Theory Seminar held in All Souls by Dr Robert Smith, a charismatic Derridean who later quit to become an incredibly swanky management consultant. That was where people were talking about Levinas, Blanchot, that sort of thing, but they were very much a (mostly postgrad) subculture.
Later on I taught at De Montfort, where the prevailing lens was Race/Class/Gender with a very CultStuds accent.
Meanwhile, the Medievalists were trying to establish definitive texts from a mass of diverging fragments using gene sequencing software, with the stated aim of recovering the author's true and original intention.
Later on I taught at De Montfort, where the prevailing lens was Race/Class/Gender with a very CultStuds accent.
Meanwhile, the Medievalists were trying to establish definitive texts from a mass of diverging fragments using gene sequencing software, with the stated aim of recovering the author's true and original intention.