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Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory

By Ellen , Rooney

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781501706998, 9781501707001, 1501707000
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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651 kB (666966 bytes)
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2020-07-26 19:24:52
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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, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the pluralist's invitation to join in a "dialogue" as a seductive gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form of logic in the work of E.D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish. For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics.

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