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Seductive Reasoning Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory / by Ellen Rooney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rooney, Ellen, 1957-
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pluralism.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Criticism--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 1989
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Ellen Rooney is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and English at Brown University. She is coeditor of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and associate editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
- Summary:
- Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the pluralist's invitation to join in a "dialogue" as a seductive gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form of logic in the work of E. D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish. For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED TEXTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Reading Pluralism Symptomatically
- 2. Persuasion and the Production of Knowledge
- 3. The Limits of Pluralism Are Not Plural
- 4. "Not to Worry" : The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Stanley Fish
- 5. Not Taking Sides: Reading the Rhetoric of Persuasion
- 6. This Politics Which Is Not One
- EPILOGUE
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501706998
- 1501706993
- 9781501707001
- 1501707000
- OCLC:
- 579736808
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