In the books by Smith and Lentricchia, subjecttivity is the explicit,positive theme, Bove’ book is an attack on the recurrence of this sudject,and a defense of Foucault along these lines. But when Bove comes to counsel his own forms of resistance, he slides back into a repetition of some of the positions he attacks, notably that of Said. If that is an inevitability, Bove does not address it as such. Foucault’s notion of subjectivity is also problematic and to some degree recuperable, and Bove is also partially a victim of that; the antidote might have been to pursue this dual problem of subjectivity and resistance in Foucault.