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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. Maillou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mailloux, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Retorica.
Rhetoric.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Hermeneutics.
Criticism.
HISTORY > Historiography.
literary criticism.
criticism.
hermeneutics.
Litterature > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Hermeneutique.
Rhetorique.
Critique.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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

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