Situated Utterances : : Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations / / Harry Berger.
Berger describes himself as “a reconstructed old New Critic,” and his publications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of the ways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance. The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his i...
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