Reception Histories : Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics / Steven Mailloux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mailloux, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English philology.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

English language--United States--Rhetoric.

English language.

Reader-response criticism--United States.

Reader-response criticism.

Politics and literature--United States.

Politics and literature.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Culture conflict--United States.

Culture conflict.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 206 p. )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences-students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE: RHETORICAL PRAGMATISM

PART TWO: CULTURAL RHETORIC STUDY

PART THREE: RHETORICAL STUDIES AND THE CULTURE WARS

Appendix: Major in English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501728433

1501728431

OCLC:

1132220768