Reason and the Nature of Texts

by James L. Battersby

• ISBN13: 9780812233599
• ISBN10: 081223359X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2016-11-11
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Language in Use Or the Semantics of Presence	p. 1
Authors and Books: the Return of The Dead from the Graveyard of Theory	p. 18
The Inevitability Of Professing Literature	p. 40
Professionalism, Relativism And Rationality	p. 51
Ideology, Textual Practice And Bakhtin	p. 72
Criticism: the More It Changes The More It is the Same Thing	p. 93
Philosophical Pluralism, Elder Olson And Postanalytic Philosophy	p. 111
Chapter 7Genre: a Matter of Form A Form of Matter	p. 127
Teaching Critical Principles In Introductory Literature Courses	p. 149
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 193"
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