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When Words Lose Their Meaning
James Boyd White
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Description for When Words Lose Their Meaning
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, xvi, 378 p. BIC Classification: CFB; PBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life.
"In this ambitious and demanding work of literary criticism, James Boyd White seeks to ... Read more
Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life.
"In this ambitious and demanding work of literary criticism, James Boyd White seeks to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
Number of Pages
394
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226895024
SKU
V9780226895024
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99-50
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