Rhetorical Power / / Steven Mailloux.
In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctions commonly made in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies—distinctions between theory and history, reader and text, truth and ideology, aesthetics and politics.Mailloux...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE. Rhetoric and Interpretation
- 1 Rhetorical Hermeneutics
- 2 The Institutional Rhetoric of Literary Criticism
- PART Two. Cultural History and Huckleberry Finn
- 3 Rhetorical Production and Ideological Performance
- 4 Cultural Reception and Social Practices
- PART THREE. Neo-Pragmatism and the Politics of Interpretation
- 5 Rhetoric, Theory, and Politics
- 6 Truth or Consequences
- Conclusion. The ABM Treaty Interpretation Dispute
- Index