Reason and the nature of texts / James L. Battersby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battersby, James L., Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

James L. Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author's deliberate, intentional acts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Language in Use, or the Semantics of Presence

1. Authors and Books: The Return of the Dead from the Graveyard of Theory

2. The Inevitability of Professing Literature

3. Professionalism, Relativism, and Rationality

4. Ideology, Textual Practice, and Bakhtin

5. Criticism: The More It Changes, the More It Is the Same Thing

6. Philosophical Pluralism, Elder Olson, and Postanalytic Philosophy

7. Genre: A Matter of Form, a Form of Matter

8. Teaching Critical Principles in Introductory Literature Courses

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9781512809367

1512809365

9780585112817

0585112819

OCLC:

979911673