Seductive reasoning : pluralism as the problematic of contemporary literary theory

Seductive reasoning : pluralism as the problematic of contemporary literary theory / by Ellen Rooney.

"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...

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Main Author: Rooney, Ellen, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Cornell University Press, 1989.
©1989
Subjects:
1900-1999
Criticism > History > 20th century.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
Pluralism.
Criticism (Philosophy)
Rhetoric.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Cultural pluralism.
pluralism.
rhetoric (discipline)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Rhetoric
Cultural pluralism
Criticism
Literature > Theory, etc.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature
Pluralism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading pluralism symptomatically
  • Persuasion and the production of knowledge
  • The limits of pluralism are not plural
  • "Not to worry" : the therapeutic rhetoric of Stanley Fish
  • Not taking sides : reading the rhetoric of persuasion
  • This politics which is not one.

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