Material Inscriptions : : Rhetorical Reading in Practice and Theory / / Andrzej Warminski.

A new work of scholarship in the 'practice' of rhetorical readingThis monograph provides readings of literary and philosophical texts that work through the rhetoric of tropes to the material inscription at the origin of these texts. The book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Author’s Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Facing Language: Wordsworth’s First Poetic Spirits (“Blest Babe,” “Drowned Man,” “Blind Beggar”)
  • 2. Aesthetic Ideology and Material Inscription: On Hegel’s Aesthetics and Keats’s Urn
  • 3. Spectre Shapes: “The Body of Descartes?”
  • 4. Reading for Example: A Metaphor in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy
  • 5. Towards a Fabulous Reading: Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lie in the Extramoral Sense”
  • 6. Reading Over Endless Histories: Henry James’s “The Altar of the Dead”
  • 7. Ending Up/Taking Back (with Two Postscripts on Paul de Man’s Historical Materialism)
  • 8. The Future Past of Literary Theory
  • Appendix: Interview: “Deconstruction at Yale”
  • Index