Material inscriptions : rhetorical reading in practice and theory / Andrzej Warminski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warminski, Andrzej.

Series:

Frontiers of theory.

The frontiers of theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Rhetoric--History.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph provides readings of literary and philosophical texts that work through the rhetoric of tropes to the material inscription at the origin of these texts. The book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of rhetorical reading. Its readings follow an itinerary from poetic texts (such as those by Wordsworth and Keats) through theoretical or philosophical texts (by Descartes and Nietzsche) to narrative fiction (by Henry James). The book also contains two essays on Paul de Man and literary theory and an interview on the topic of 'Deconstruction at Yale.' All three of these latter texts are explicitly about the inescapable function and importance of the rhetoric of tropes for any critical reading or literary study worthy of the name.

Contents:

Facing Language: Wordsworth's First Poetic Spirits ('Blest Babe, ' 'Drowned Man, ' 'Blind Beggar')

Aesthetic Ideology and Material Inscription: On Hegel's Aesthetics and Keats's Urn

Spectre Shapes: 'The Body of Descartes?'

Reading for Example: A Metaphor in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy

Towards a Fabulous Reading: Nietzsche's 'On Truth and Lie in the Extra-moral Sense'

Reading Over Endless Histories: Henry James's 'The Altar of the Dead'

Ending Up / Taking Back (with two postscripts on Paul de Man's historical materialism)

The Future Past of Literary Theory.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-9377-7

0-7486-8123-X

OCLC:

853238756