Paradigms Regained: Pluralism and the Practice of Criticism - Rilegato

Battersby, James L.

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ISBN 10: 0812231279 ISBN 13: 9780812231274

Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1991

Riassunto

Paradigms Regained is James L Battersby's effort to reclaim for literary study certain legitimate territories that have been needlessly abandoned on the theoretical battlefield. Despite assertions to the contrary by poststructuralist or new historicist critics, Battersby contends, it is still possible to talk intelligently, rigorously, and usefully about such issues as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning, and objective value judgments of literary works.

What enables Battersby to make his argument is his reliance not on continental thought but on Anglo-American analytic and pragmatic philosophers, including Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Israel Scheffler. Battersby synthesizes and builds on their work in a way that is at once fresh and distinctive.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

James L. Battersby is Professor Emeritus of English, The Ohio State University, and the author of Reason and the Nature of Texts, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Product Description:

This monograph represents an effort to reclaim for literary study certain legitimate territories that have been needlessly abandoned on the theoretical battlefield. Despite assertions to the contrary by poststructuralist or new historicist critics, it contends, it is still possible to talk usefully about such issues as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning and objective value judgements of literary works. The author bases his arguments not on Continental thought, but on Anglo-American analytic and pragmatic philosophers, including Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, John Searle and Israel Scheffler.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0812231279
• ISBN 13: 9780812231274
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 328