Seductive Reasoning Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory

• Главный автор: Rooney, Ellen (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Cornell University Press 1989
• Предметы: persuasion; Wayne Booth; literary theory; pluralism; Fredric Jameson; rhetoric; Stanley Fish; E.D. Hirsch; Paul de Man
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Итог

<p>Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the pluralist's invitation to join in a "dialogue" as a seductive gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form of logic in the work of E. D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish. For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics.<p>

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1 electronic resource (272 p.)

ISBN

9781501707216

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Open Access