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Material Inscriptions : Rhetorical Reading in Practice and Theory / Andrzej Warminski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTHPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748681228
  • 9780748681235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95 23
LOC classification:
  • P301 .W37 2013
  • P301 .W37 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Facing Language: Wordsworth’s First Poetic Spirits (“Blest Babe,” “Drowned Man,” “Blind Beggar”) -- 2. Aesthetic Ideology and Material Inscription: On Hegel’s Aesthetics and Keats’s Urn -- 3. Spectre Shapes: “The Body of Descartes?” -- 4. Reading for Example: A Metaphor in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy -- 5. Towards a Fabulous Reading: Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lie in the Extramoral Sense” -- 6. Reading Over Endless Histories: Henry James’s “The Altar of the Dead” -- 7. Ending Up/Taking Back (with Two Postscripts on Paul de Man’s Historical Materialism) -- 8. The Future Past of Literary Theory -- Appendix: Interview: “Deconstruction at Yale” -- Index
Summary: A new work of scholarship in the 'practice' of rhetorical readingThis monograph provides readings of literary and philosophical texts that work through the rhetoric of tropes to the material inscription at the origin of these texts. The book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of rhetorical reading. Its readings follow an itinerary from poetic texts (such as those by Wordsworth and Keats) through theoretical or philosophical texts (by Descartes and Nietzsche) to narrative fiction (by Henry James). The book also contains two essays on Paul de Man and literary theory and an interview on the topic of Deconstruction at Yale." All three of these latter texts are explicitly about the inescapable function and importance of the rhetoric of tropes for any critical reading or literary study worthy of the name.As Andrzej Warminski demonstrates, ‘rhetorical reading’ is a species of ‘deconstructive reading’—in the full ‘de Manian’ sense—but one that, rather than harkening back to a past over and done with, would open the texts to a different future.Key Features:New readings of texts by Wordsworth, Keats, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Henry JamesEssays and an interview on Paul de Man and ‘Deconstruction at Yale’Reflects on and exemplifies the pedagogical value of ‘de Manian’ rhetorical readingAttempts to open a future for 'deconstructive' or 'de Manian' reading"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Facing Language: Wordsworth’s First Poetic Spirits (“Blest Babe,” “Drowned Man,” “Blind Beggar”) -- 2. Aesthetic Ideology and Material Inscription: On Hegel’s Aesthetics and Keats’s Urn -- 3. Spectre Shapes: “The Body of Descartes?” -- 4. Reading for Example: A Metaphor in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy -- 5. Towards a Fabulous Reading: Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lie in the Extramoral Sense” -- 6. Reading Over Endless Histories: Henry James’s “The Altar of the Dead” -- 7. Ending Up/Taking Back (with Two Postscripts on Paul de Man’s Historical Materialism) -- 8. The Future Past of Literary Theory -- Appendix: Interview: “Deconstruction at Yale” -- Index

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A new work of scholarship in the 'practice' of rhetorical readingThis monograph provides readings of literary and philosophical texts that work through the rhetoric of tropes to the material inscription at the origin of these texts. The book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of rhetorical reading. Its readings follow an itinerary from poetic texts (such as those by Wordsworth and Keats) through theoretical or philosophical texts (by Descartes and Nietzsche) to narrative fiction (by Henry James). The book also contains two essays on Paul de Man and literary theory and an interview on the topic of Deconstruction at Yale." All three of these latter texts are explicitly about the inescapable function and importance of the rhetoric of tropes for any critical reading or literary study worthy of the name.As Andrzej Warminski demonstrates, ‘rhetorical reading’ is a species of ‘deconstructive reading’—in the full ‘de Manian’ sense—but one that, rather than harkening back to a past over and done with, would open the texts to a different future.Key Features:New readings of texts by Wordsworth, Keats, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Henry JamesEssays and an interview on Paul de Man and ‘Deconstruction at Yale’Reflects on and exemplifies the pedagogical value of ‘de Manian’ rhetorical readingAttempts to open a future for 'deconstructive' or 'de Manian' reading"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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