The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary TheoryElizabeth Beaumont Bissell Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature. |
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... rhetorical one - a question , that is , of its own rhetoric , duplicitously poised between the question that literature asks ( itself synecdochic for any number of other more or less specific and inclusive questions ) , and the question ...
... rhetorical one - a question , that is , of its own rhetoric , duplicitously poised between the question that literature asks ( itself synecdochic for any number of other more or less specific and inclusive questions ) , and the question ...
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... rhetorical than the institutional one is merely academic . In the name of what , after all , does the rhetorical become the merely rhetorical or the academic the merely academic ? What necessity dictates that a rhetorical question ...
... rhetorical than the institutional one is merely academic . In the name of what , after all , does the rhetorical become the merely rhetorical or the academic the merely academic ? What necessity dictates that a rhetorical question ...
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... rhetorical . This may mean that they tempt theory to believe that it cannot or does not need to answer them , and that they are negligible , even frivolous , for the same reason that they are ostentatious . But at the same time , the ...
... rhetorical . This may mean that they tempt theory to believe that it cannot or does not need to answer them , and that they are negligible , even frivolous , for the same reason that they are ostentatious . But at the same time , the ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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